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Richard Price is President of the North East Watercolor Society, a signature member of the North East Watercolor Society, and a signature member of the Central New York Watercolor Society. North East Watercolor Society Central New York Watercolor Society 866 Cadosia Road, Hancock, NY 13783 607-637-3412 |
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Richard Price lives and works in Cadosia, NY. His watercolors have won awards in regional and national art shows. Influenced by Winslow Homer, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, and many of the historic masters, his work combines realistic images with emotional perceptions and interpretations of subject matter to produce paintings with a strong sense of place. A full range of tonal values, given depth and luminosity by repeated glazes and intricate detail, add impact and solidity to his work.
"After painting for twenty years, I still don't like to classify where I’ve been or where I’m going. Right now, it looks like I'll always be a realist. There seems to be no limit to the things I want to paint. Most of my work is based on real places or things, but it might be only a texture or a shadow that is the essence of it, something mysterious or melancholy, hopeful or sad. It’s rarely a whole building or landscape; just some part of it that catches my eye and stirs up something inside me - something about time or hardship or solitude - that makes it worthwhile to try to get it down. The only goal I have in painting is to become the best painter I possibly can. Although there is no end to this pursuit, it is the only meaningful and longlasting motivation for an artist."
