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Whitstable Sunset Paintings

April 19, 2024 RicHorner

Whitstable is a quintessentially English seaside town in the Canterbury district, on the north coast of Kent adjoining the convergence of the Swale Estuary and the Greater Thames Estuary in south-eastern England, five miles north of Canterbury and two miles west of Herne Bay. It has been attracting visitors for centuries with its charm, beautiful scenery and cosy atmosphere.

long 65 x 36cm – £ 130
rectangular 61 x 48cm – £ 145
square 61 x 61cm – £ 160

Established land and seascape painter Ric W. 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 paintings that often feature coastal and harbour scenes in Kentish places such as Whitstable, Seasalter, Canterbury, Margate, Ramsgate and the views towards Faversham and the Isle of Sheppey.

All original oil on canvas paintings are listed on :
Available Paintings- April 2024

Above: prints on paper £ 25 – £ 40 (un-mounted)

You can purchase the PRINTS directly from this website at: NEW! Large framed prints, or view Ric’s entire card range at Cards .

Above: print on paper ‘Evening at Whitstable Harbour”, 40 x 50cm including mount £ 45

Above: print on paper of Whitstable Harbour in turquoise tones, 45 x 45cm – framed £ 80

Print on paper of Whitstable Harbour, 30 x 42cm (no mount) £ 15. If you are interested in smaller prints go to: Mounted Prints | or Prints on paper in our shop.

There are also about 50

CARDS AVAILABLE

You can pick them up from the artist’s studio, as well as from George’s and The Horsebridge in Whitstable.

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

Original water colour studies and prints in Ric’s studio.

Available Paintings – April 2024

April 1, 2024 RicHorner

Ric has currently about 30 original oil on canvas paintings available (see images below). Prices for small pieces start at around £ 250. He is working on several commissions at the moment, as well as on a series of large Whitstable beachscapes, which will be completed in the next couple of months.

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

He has also a wonderful range of smaller, framed and unframed Gouache (water colour) studies that start at around £ 75.

Ric’s prints range from £ 15 to £ 160. View all prints here! Greeting cards are £ 3.00 and £ 3.50

Large commissions start at £ 2500.

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.

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

Light obscured (West beach), 50 x 50cm, oil on canvas – available

Solstice, 30 x 30cm, 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

Sunlight through rain, 61.5 x 28cm, oil on canvas – available

Lost Buoy, 61 x 67cm, oil on wood panel – available

Whitstable Harbour (misty evening 2021), oil on box canvas, 78.5 x 78.5cm – available

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

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

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

Cloud structures, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 23cm – (reserved)

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

Our pathways, oil on canvas, 23 x 33cm – available

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

Kent coast, 20 x 20cm, oil on canvas – available

Moorland dawn, 63 x 40cm, oil on canvas – available

Spring Tide, 21 x 26cm, oil on canvas – available

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

Rain Gap, West Beach, 20x 20cm, oil on canvas – available

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

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

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

Thunderhead/ Cloud study, 28 x 28cm, oil on wood panel – available

West Beach Whitstable (3), 50 x 40cm, oil on canvas – available

Hay Tor rocks, 38 x 38cm, oil on wood panel – available

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All water water colour paintings, as well as framed prints can be found at the shop page: Shop | Ric W. Horner

Ric has spent many months over the years painting the view from his studio using Gouache, a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water and thickened glue-like substance (gum binding agent) to achieve brilliant, vibrant colours that are lightfast, smooth and solid. Gouache is a French word, from the Latin root aquatio, “watering place” and simply means “watercolour”. The way it’s applied is by using a brush and watercolour paper. He likes this medium for it’s quick-drying, bold qualities and has produced over 30 pieces in recent months, many of them are about 35 x 20cm in size, including a protective mount. Gouache generally dries to a value that differs from the one it has when wet (lighter tones generally dry darker and darker tones tend to dry lighter), which can make it difficult to match colours over multiple painting sessions. Its quick coverage and total hiding power mean that gouache lends itself to more direct painting techniques than watercolour. Many “en plein air” paintings take advantage of this, as do the works of J. M. W. Turner.

Below: work in progress…..

Artists Open Houses 2023

October 12, 2023 RicHorner

Ric works in a modern classical way and creates atmospheric, light-filled land and seascapes. The sublime light of his paintings is characteristic of a style called Luminism. He takes part every year in the East Kent Artist’s Open Houses (https://ekoh.org.uk/whitstable). If you’ve missed this event last October, get in touch to arrange a studio visit. He and his partner were in house 13 on the Whitstable trail. For directions go to: https://ekoh.org.uk/…/65-joy-lane-sherrins-alley…/

However, he still has wonderful new range of smaller oil paintings, as well as high-quality greeting cards and prints available. They can be picked up directly from his studio on West Beach.

Artist working on Whitstable Beach

June 16, 2020 RicHorner

It’s now 11 years that Ric W. Horner has lived in the late Dan Sherrin’s (1869 – 1940) quirky cottage on The Saxon Shore Way in Whitstable, 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.

Ric focuses in his work on the elemental qualities of open space, the energy of weather and the expressive frequencies of light. Over time Ric has recorded the dynamic changes in weather, atmosphere and cloud formations that one sees in this area, focusing predominantly on the views across the Swale Estuary towards the Isle of Sheppey.

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Artist Dan Sherrin 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 his paintings still hangs in Buckingham Palace, as he was once commissioned by King George V. Furthermore. An elderly neighbour who lived nearby in Preston Parade Seasalter, has 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.

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) described the famous sunsets along the North Kent coast as some of the best in the world and just like Turner, Ric also explores the unique atmospheres found in this area. He says:

“My work has as much to do with the changing weather; encompassing all sorts of environmental conditions, which can range massively from attractive and peaceful to threatening and dangerous, as well as with the geographical location. Since moving into the late artist Dan Sherrin’s old 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 myriad of subject matter in front of me and I am less dependent on notes and colour sketches. I can now work directly on canvas from my subject and study in detail various sea states and “light events” which may have previously evaded me. It’s become possible to study storms in greater detail and track showers and their influence on the sea in some degree of comfort. Sadly, despite the house’s prominence and history, time and gravity has taken its toll, leaving it bereft of level floors, so when I first moved in, the horizon appeared to lean when looking out from my studio!”

Recently, in February 2024 another artist, internationally acclaimed sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has installed an activist group of people outside The Old Neptune Pub on West Beach called Sirens of Sewage. Originally intended for placement in a tidal area along the adjacent coastline, the project encountered resistance from local authorities and is now situated on private land less than 10 away from Ric’s studio, and well worth visiting.

This painting is sold but cards and prints available.

White Wood Gallery

November 6, 2016 RicHorner

Ric was represented by the White Wood Gallery in Ashburton, Dartmoor from November 2016 until February 2018. This arrangement has now come to an end.

Lovely feedback was received from previous buyers:

Dear Mr Horner, as a 50th Wedding Anniversary present to ourselves we purchased from the White Wood Gallery in Ashburton your oil painting entitled “Approaching Rain near Princetown, Dartmoor” (see above). My wife and I have known, loved and frequently visited Dartmoor since we were both young and we felt your painting captures the atmosphere of the Moor very well. We are generally more familiar with the eastern side of the Moor – i.e. Chagford/ Haytor/Hound Tor – and not so familiar with the area around Princetown. We wondered if you were able to give some more detail of the location from which your painting was taken?

At the Lilford gallery Canterbury

June 8, 2016 RicHorner

Ric was one of the first artists to be represented at this gallery in 1999.

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Ric’s work on the wall next to Tracy Emin figure drawings and Damian Hirst’s dot sculpture.

At the Affordable Art Fair in London, Battersea Park

The large black & white seascape below was bought by the well-known British comedian Ricky Gervais in 2009

Pompeii: An exhibition by Ric Horner

August 2, 2013 RicHorner

In the same year as the British Museum put on a blockbuster exhibition called ‘Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’, 2013 (www.britishmuseum.org/pompeii-live) Ric also created a solo show on the subject of the ancient Roman city Pompeii, hoping to transport people back to AD 79 to discover how life was transformed in just 24 hours, when the two cities in the Bay of Naples, southern Italy, were buried by a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Hoping to recreate how it looks now, and how it may well have looked during and after the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius he said:

“Pompeii is paradoxical, the city was once the site of a tremendous environmental catastrophe, but now all is serene and in a state of artful decay. Ironically, its preservation was due to its destruction -had it not been buried by the layers of ash, it would not be here today. In this particular series I tried to convey these unique qualities. When creating the work, I found that I had tapped into a similar colour palette to the one artists used when painting frescos in and around the city before the eruption. This may not have been a coincidence and may be linked to the strong Italian sunlight and its location near the Bay of Naples.”

Another exhibition of Pompeii that is currently running is at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. This show is on until September 2023. (msichicago.org/pompeii)