Description
A simple yet hauntingly beautiful watercolour of trees in a wintry landscape by renowned Welsh artist Richard A Wills. A minimalist painting of sheer class, which evokes the true feeling of winter in its bleak, yet comforting appearance. It is framed, mounted and glazed and measures 45 x 39 cm. The painting itself measures 30 x 22 cm.
Richard A Wills is a well established Welsh artist. A former first class rugby player Wills has exhibited at The Royal Academy, The Royal Watercolour Society, among many others.
The following is an excerpt from a newspaper article featuring this very painting…
Representing Wales this week is a beautiful watercolour landscape by well-known artist and appropriately, former first-class rugby player, Richard A Wills.
Wills was born in 1939 in The Wye Valley and showed both sporting and artistic talent at a very early age. He attended Newport College of Art and played as a rugby centre back all the way up to the highest club level, only narrowly missing out on national honours. He always kept his hand in with his painting and when it came time to hang up his boots Richard turned to art as a full-time career with dramatic success.
He specialises in oil portraiture and his brilliant work has been compared to that of Norman Rockwell. His list of subjects is a who’s who of welsh society including HRH The Duke of Gloucester, Viscount Tonypandy, Sir Geraint Evans, Professor Sir Hubert Duthie, The Archbishop of Wales, Brigadier John Davey, among many others.
He is also known for stunning watercolour and oil paintings of Welsh landscapes, horses, rugby players, famous poets and recently has been exploring the world of modern abstract art. He is also a very accomplished sculptor. Over the years Richard Wills has exhibited at The Royal Academy of Art, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Watercolour Society, The Royal west of England Academy, etc. He has also been commissioned regularly by The Welsh RFU, The Royal Regiment of Wales and British Steel. His paintings hang in many public and private collections around the world including The International Rugby Board, The Welsh National Collection, The Welsh Office in Whitehall, The National Museum of Wales, etc. He still finds time to teach talented young artists and has converted his home in Monmouth to both a retreat for budding artists and a full on art gallery.
What we have here is a beautifully simple, but evocative little watercolour of a wintery Welsh landscape featuring trees in a snowy setting and it has a very low-price tag of only £300.
