Ray Richardson

Art Brokerage: Ray Richardson British Artist: b. 1964. He was born in Woolwich, S.E.London in 1964. He graduated from St Martins School of Art in 1984 and Goldsmiths in 1987. He has lived and worked in Paris, Brussels, Chicago and Connecticut. Ray Richardson's paintings are more than just a mirror of everyday life. His subjects are drawn from his own experience of being born and bred and from living and working in London. When you look at the work of Ray Richardson you don't have to experience it through just the usual suspects of art history. See it too through the minor musical language of Gil Scott Heron and Marvin Gaye or the pulp history of James Ellroy or the motivation of Cinema Noir.