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Available artwork – October 2024

On this page you’ll find all of Ric’s original oil on canvas paintings. Please contact him directly for any of these pieces. Prints and small Gouache studies can be purchased directly from his shop page and start at £ 25.

Large commissions start at £ 1500. 

Commission March 2024 – sold

 

Please note, all international orders of original oil paintings should always include insurance. Postal costs will vary according to size & weight, as all paintings are sent in bespoke wooden crates for protection. For insurance quotes and p&p contact me at: enquiries@richorner.com, or tel.: 07835294317.

You can follow Ric on Instagram.com/richornerpaintings 

 

Solstice, 30 x 30cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

West Beach, Whitstable. oil on textured wood panel. 88 x 98cm – available

 

 

 

 

Ebb and Flow, 30 x 40cm, oil on canvas – available  

 

 

 

 

Light show, Whitstable, 78 x 78cm, oil on canvas – available  

 

 

 

 

Light bomb, Whitstable, 48 x 90cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

Rain Gap, West Beach, oil on canvas, 44 x 55cm – available

 

 

 

 

Whitstable skyline (3), 28 x 24cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

Margate Harbour Evening Light, 22 x 22cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

Summer Storm Clouds, 30 x 60cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

Lost BuoyLost buoy, 61 x 67cm, oil on wood panel available

 

 

 

 

First LightFirst Light, 71 x 81cm, oil on wood panel (framed) – available 

 

 

 

 

Salcombe Harbour, 26 x 26cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

Cloud Race, 20 x 20cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

Cloud structures, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 23cm –  available

 

 

 

 

Kent Landscape near Faversham (2), oil on canvas  – available

 

 

 

 

Kent Landscape near Faversham (1), oil on canvas, 30 x 17cm – available

 

 

 

 

Kent Landscape, 30 x 24cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

Meadow at dusk, oil on canvas, 28.5 x 17cm – available

 

 

 

 

Sunlit Clearing, 71 x 71cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

Whitstable HarbourKent coast, 20 x 20cm,  oil on canvas  – available

 

 

 

 

Dartmoor 2, 63 x 40cmMoorland dawn, 63 x 40cm,  oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

Weather Study, 26 x 20cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

Landscape near Monkton, 22 x 22cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

View across the OazeThe view across the Oaze,  22 x 22cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

 

 

Kent first Snow, last lightKent first Snow, last light. 23 x 30.5cm, oil on canvas – available

 

 

 

 

Long after Sunset (June)Long after Sunset (June), 28.5 x 17cm, oil on canvas – available 

 

 

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Paintings of Dartmoor National Park

After graduating from Exeter College of Art in 1989, Ric Horner spent the first two years of his career living and working on Dartmoor in Devon, developing a unique and profound engagement with light, mood and distance. Consequently he produced two solo shows; one at Marloes gallery in London in 1989 and one at Exeter College in 1990.

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Twenty-six years later, in 2016, Ric had the opportunity to put together yet another stunning exhibition on the subject, this time at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor National Park. Thanks to his longstanding friend, supporter and art collector,  historian and internationally acclaimed author Dr Ian Mortimer, Ric was able to showcase a selection of over 40 original oil on canvas paintings in the town’s dedicated art space.

Dr Ian Mortimer said about this exhibition in his introduction:

“Ric Horner is one of the country’s leading landscape painters. I have no doubt that, in due course, he will be recognised as one of the most significant landscape artists of our time. Ric’s dedication is astounding; his integrity no less so. For me it has been a privilege and an honour to be so closely involved with this exhibition, and to have been able to buy a number of his paintings over the years.

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The “Dartmoor: Theatre of Light” exhibition (10th September to 29th October 2016) at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead was very well received and sold well for the gallery.

This year, in spring 2024, Ric has returned to the subject and has produced 26 different greeting card designs taken from this solo exhibition, as well as from other Devonshire and Cornish coastal areas.

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He is currently selling some of these cards via MAKE Southeast in Bovey Tracey and the Moretonhampstead Visitors’ Information Centre.

With over 150,000 visitors a year traveling to Dartmoor National Park, there can be no question that Dartmoor and it’s landscape has attracted artists, as well as tourists for centuries and helped fire their imagination. From the thick mists that suddenly appear and roll across the moor to the dark, bottomless mires and the craggy granite tors, each lends an air of mystery and magic, all ripe for associated legends and tales.

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 Dr Mortimer says about Ric’s work:

In this exhibition, you will find yourself on a road at night having just seen the first welcoming streetlight of the village: you will soon be home and warm. The sun has gone down behind Laughter Tor leaving a few drifting clouds and vapour trails in the deep blue sky: the seemingly eternal rocky outcrop is juxtaposed with the ephemeral vestiges of the day. But the most striking feature of these Dartmoor paintings is the light. Often the painting is not actually about the hill, rock or any other object in the distance; it is about the space between you and that object. It is a portrait of the light, a place where skies brood, threaten, delight, obscure with mist, groan with rain or brighten with a ray of optimism.”

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“A stunning exhibition of the highest calibre!”

“Poetic, beautiful, bold and absolutely marvellous!”

They are  sublime. So magical and true to the atmosphere”

“Ric Horner’s work is superb – truly spectacular!”

“Breathtaking views and big skies! Fabulous.”

Wow! “I absolutely love your work; such stunning paintings. The most amazing sky and little houses shining like jewels.  What an uplifting exhibition!”

We recently saw your Theatre of Light exhibition in Moretonhampstead and were both really moved by it. I just wanted to let you know how delighted I am to have been able to purchase one of your pictures. I bought your picture of Scorhill (image below). It’s always been a favourite place of mine on the Moor and your picture captures it so vividly.

 

Ric in his studio in summer 2016 preparing for the show.

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Below: Friends Ian Mortimer and Ric Horner on field trip to ‘The Strangles’ in September 2014, where the idea of the ‘Theatre of Light ‘ exhibition was first perceived.

Ric is available for commissions. Please contact him at: enquiries@richorner.com, if you fancy your own favourite views painted.

He has recently (April 2024) completed a large scale panorama picturing the view as you walk across the pebble bed heaths around Joney’s Cross near Sidmouth, a high point that is looking towards the coast in East Devon.

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