Richard
Austin
visual artist
Chelsea, Québec, Canada
Over the past five decades I’ve worked in different creative mediums: painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, graphics and book design.
My oil portrait paintings created during the 1990s blended soft edges and textures, attempting to capture my subjects’ ethereal moods and dark emotions.
In the last few years, I’ve been using acrylics to create compositions with more defined dramatic contours, focusing on abstract minimalist interpretations of still life and landscapes.
These paintings project simplified and deconstructed natural forms using limited colour palettes.
Often in my creative work, I try to challenge perception, perspectives and assumptions about form and content.
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Mountain
2024
Acrylic on gallery canvas
28”x22”
SOLD
Nature’s way
2024
Acrylic on canvas
18”x24”
SOLD
Northern autumn trees
2025
Acrylic on canvas
24”x18”
Island trees
2025
Acrylic on canvas
24”x18”
Pale moon rising
2024
Acrylic on canvas
24”x36”
SOLD
Blues
2025
Acrylic on canvas
24”x18”
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