Ric W. Horner – Fine Artist & Mentor

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History of Ric’s Art Studio

Jul 8, 2025

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It is now 12 years since I moved into the cottage built by the eccentric painter Dan Sherrin (1869-1940), a small summer residency on the seafront in a secluded beach-view garden. Local records show that this was the artist’s original studio from which he painted his work The Wreck at Seasalter among others and that…
Paintings of Margate promenade and clock tower

Dec 1, 2024

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Ric’s artistic journey began on the North Kent coast, around Cliftonville in Margate, where, as a boy, he spent long hours sketching the beaches and absorbing the drama of the sea. That early exposure to the shifting moods of the coast laid the foundation for a career marked by a preoccupation with the elemental: light,…