LEONARD ROSOMAN OBE RA 
Portrait of Richard Hughes, Nairobi (1982)

Dimensions: Width 80cm, Height 60cm
2 editions available out of 250
Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil

A beautifully vibrant and engaging depiction of a flamboyant and colourful Richard Hughes. Typical of the style of Leonard Rosoman, the portrait captures Richard Hughes in his natural environment - throwing paper around the room.  

Richard Hughes (b.1926) himself reminisces about this in a Guardian Newpaper Obituary of Leonard: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/09/leonard-rosoman

The man Richard Hughes (in the portrait) was an architect held in great esteem by many. In 30 years he produced more than 350 building projects across Africa, the majority found in Kenya. He was a relative radical in creating urban environments with racially mixed new towns. Often renowned for creating pared-down functional dwellings, out of local materials, and with spartan budgets.

The painting also appears to capture his wife Anne, looking in from their beautifully colourful garden.



https://thefineartsociety.com/artists/139-leonard-rosoman-ra/overview/

Leonard Rosoman studied at King Edward VII School of Art, University of Durham, the Royal Academy Schools, Central School of Arts and Crafts, and then taught at Camberwell, Edinburgh College of Art, Royal College and Chelsea School of Art. He was appointed Official War Artist to the Admiralty in 1943. Made Royal Academician in 1960 and Senior Academician in 1989. 

He has exhibited extensively in London and New York, and painted many murals including one for the Royal Academy of Arts restaurant (1986) and Lambeth Palace Chapel ceiling (1988). His work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum, where a retrospective of his work was held in 1989. He was awarded an OBE in 1981, lives in London and is represented by The Fine Art Society. 

Rosoman's work as a painter, illustrator and designer, is often characterised by an ambiguous manipulation of space and perspective. His working practice involves taking photographs of spaces and people, and working them into complex and beautifully balanced depictions of crowded interiors or expansive open spaces. His paintings, often in acrylic, have an individual, 'heightened' palette, mustard yellows, muted vermilions and peacock blue/greens.


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