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Available Paintings – 2025

March 1, 2025 RicHorner

On this page you’ll find all of Ric’s available paintings. Many are also in his STUDIO EXHIBITION. Please contact him directly for interest in any of these works.

Untitled (15), oil on canvas, 88 x 65 – £ 1500

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 him at: enquiries@richorner.com, or tel.: 07835294317

Large commissions start at £ 1500.

Untitled (12), 20 x 20cm, oil on canvas – £ 180

Solstice, 30 x 30cm, oil on canvas – £ 350

Calm evening, 79 x 79cm, oil on canvas – £ 1200

Untitled (16), 25 x 25cm, oil on canvas – £ 250

West Beach, Whitstable. oil on textured wood panel. 88 x 98cm – £ 1800

Autumn beach at sunset, 55 x 63cm, oil on canvas – £ 1500

West Beach to Sheppey, 48 x 90cm, oil on canvas – £ 1250

Sea dream, 60 x 42cm, oil on canvas – £ 650

Rain Gap, West Beach, oil on canvas, 44 x 55cm – £ 650

Cloud study (1), 60 x 30cm, oil on canvas – £ 450

Summer Storm Clouds, 30 x 60cm, oil on canvas – £ 450

Heavy weather at Salcombe, 61 x 67cm, oil on wood panel – £ 650

First Light, 71 x 81cm, oil on wood panel (framed) – £ 750

Salcombe Harbour, 26 x 26cm, oil on canvas – £ 350

Sunlit Clearing, 71 x 71cm, oil on canvas – £ 350

Margate Harbour Evening Light, 22 x 22cm, oil on canvas – £ 180

Plein Air Painting Courses

February 15, 2025 RicHorner

Ric W. Horner is a qualified art tutor and has worked professionally for over 35 years. He has exhibited his atmospheric land & seascape paintings widely and has sold his art all over the world. He is now offering inspirational art classes and 1-to-1 tuition at his characterful art studio set in a secluded garden on Whitstable beach.

This unique location provides the perfect setting for stunning sunsets and dramatic beach scenes.

In this course, he will work with you either in the garden, or directly on the seafront (a 3 minute walk), Whitstable Harbour and other places, where we can identify areas in which you can best improve your technical skills, abilities and confidence.

You will learn about composition, contrasts, colour tones and theory, as well as receive guidance on all the materials needed to construct a successful land, or seascape painting. Classes are kept small, so that you will get lots of individual attention and ensure the highest quality experience. They are intended for beginners and intermediate painters.

Free Parking is available at the top of the hill (a 3 minute walk), however due to this very steep location, it is not suitable for wheelchairs users. During your stay you will have access to Ric’s oil painting exhibition, as well as opportunities to pick up his lovely greeting cards and prints. Even though we will provide light refreshments, we recommend to bring your own lunch.

£ 85 from 10am-4:30pm

£ 45 for 2 ½ hours

We are flexible in regards to days and hours. Please call: 07835294317, or email: enquiries@richorner.com to register your interest.

Whitstable Seascapes

December 1, 2024 RicHorner

Established land & seascape painter Ric Horner focuses in his work on the elemental qualities of light, the energy of weather and the drama of the sea. He creates highly atmospheric oil paintings featuring classic Kent coast and harbour scenes, as well as the stunning sunsets seen on Whitstable beach.

He has recently set up a permanent display at the front of his house with a rolling exhibition of finished pieces. This gallery space is open on weekends from 10:30am – 5pm.

If you are visiting Whitstable, this is a wonderful opportunity to meet the artist in his studio, pick up some lovely greeting cards and view his original paintings while passing by on a scenic (circular) walk only 20min from town centre. You can combine it with stops at some of our most well-known pubs: The Old Neptune on West Beach, The Rose in Bloom in Joy Lane, (next door to Ric’s place), and The Sportsman gastro pub in Seasalter.

All of Ric’s paintings are for sale and can be viewed at: Available paintings – 2025.

To arrange a visit, call 07835294317, or email enquiries@richorner.com

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Ric collaborates on site with his partner Annett, who works in a bold, expressive, semi-abstract way. In her art, she focuses mostly on their beautiful koi fish pond and wildlife garden.

Artist working on Whitstable Beach

April 8, 2024 RicHorner

You can read all about it in the February 2025 article: The sky below our feet – Whitstable Views

It is now 12 years since Ric moved into the cottage built by the
eccentric painter Dan Sherrin – a small summer residency on the
seafront in a secluded garden on The Saxon Shore Way, a long-distance footpath in England, which starts at Gravesend, Kent, and traces the coast of South-East England for 163 miles in total. He is one in a long line of artists , writers and novelists that made the town their home, for reasons such as the gorgeous light and stunning sunsets.

Eccentric painter Dan Sherrin (1869 – 1940) was an artist that could not be missed about the town, as he insisted on wearing the most outrageously chequer plus fours and his love of beer was legendary.

Dan was also a famous self-publicist of the most humorous kind, a practical joker who not only poked fun at those in authority – he even built his own airplane and created a spoof fire brigade! One of Dan’s paintings still hangs in Buckingham Palace, as he was once commissioned by King George V.

An elderly neighbour who lived nearby, told Ric that he recalls seeing Winston Churchill plus entourage on the little foot bridge on Preston Parade viewing the newly installed gun battery, which was right in front of the house in about 1943.

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“Since moving into Dan Sherrin’s cottage, I have set up my studio at the front of the house, which overlooks the sea. This has changed my working practice profoundly, as I now have a wealth of natural beauty in front of me and I am less dependent on notes and colour sketches.”

“My paintings have much to do with the changing energy of weather; encompassing all sorts of environmental conditions, which can range massively from attractive, peaceful and scenic to threatening and dangerous.

I can now work directly on canvas while engaging with my subject and depict various sea states and light events that may have otherwise evaded me. It has become possible to study storms in greater detail and track showers and their influence on the sea in some degree of comfort. These paintings are therefore composed in my imagination based on observed realities. They are true to my inner eye. Unfortunately, despite the house’s prominence and history, time and gravity have taken their toll, leaving every floor uneven, so when I first moved in, the horizon appeared to lean when looking out from the window!”

Ric opens his studio to the public on most days throughout the year. You can now visit him and buy his original paintings, prints and greeting cards directly from him.