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ISLAND COLORS Sir Roland Richardson
March 30, 2018-7:00 pm - 10:00 pm UTC+0
ISLAND COLORS
Sir Roland Richardson en Plein Air
Opening Night Reception: Friday, March 30, 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Currently Sir Roland and his wife, Laura, have been raising funds to restore this valuable
community landmark so it may pass forward as a national museum for many generations
to come.
Respected worldwide, Richardson received the highest award of the Dutch royal
decorations, the Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau in 2007, from the court of Queen
Beatrice of the Netherlands (one in a long list of high profile collectors including Jackie
Kennedy Onassis, the Getty family, Harry Belafonte, Martha Graham, Susan Lucci,
Romare Bearden and many others). Sir Roland also received a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the French Government. With countless exhibitions to his name, including
the distinction of being the first West Indian artist to exhibit at the major Art Hamptons
exhibition in New York, Richardson’s gift endures. Represented in collections as far a-
field as Amsterdam, Beirut, Moscow and Zurich, he unleashes the vibrant spirit of the
Caribbean on a global scale.
Described by Harlem Renaissance painter, Romare Bearden as seeing, “with the lens of
a painter and the inward gaze of a poet,” Richardson’s empathic renderings
communicate a mesmerizing spontaneity of form and motion, born of a desire to capture
the essence of his subject at a single moment in time. “Working from life is the most
challenging undertaking in painting because there is no fixity, only a constant change
revealed in color, shadows and changing form… bringing you closer to a sense of being
in the present.”
Devoted to a simple life of “genuine focus,” he revels in the dynamic relationship forged
between artist and subject, claiming that he is ‘called’ by the pure light and intense color
of his subjects, acting merely as conduit for what emerges from the canvas: “Color felt is
nourishment… is the messenger of illumination,” he states. “Color is my language.”
Sir Roland Richardson will be meeting and greeting “Island Colors” exhibition Opening
Night visitors to Galeria Adelmo Friday evening, March 30 from 7pm to 10pm. He will
also be hosting a workshop the next morning, March 31, during Galeria Adelmo’s weekly
Saturday Morning Art Class from 9:30am to 1:00 pm