Richard Duning's Busy Year

This year Richard rose to a challenge, and filled a new Eureka restaurant with over 40 new paintings. The walls of the new Bayfront Restaurant, on the boardwalk along Humboldt bay, came to life with vivid abstract, symbolic, and dreamlike images. They can be seen by visitors 11 am to 9 pm every day.

The exhibition was so successful that he was asked to mount another exhibition in the new Kobe Restaurant building in Redding, California. Large and vivid paintings, including several of the large 8x6 foot canvases, brought the space alive with color and pulsing images. At the moment, over 70 of Richard’s works are on view in California.

Summer was spent in France, taking a workshop in wood-fired pottery; and camping trips in the Sierra mountains of California, where Richard created sets of prisma stick drawings, his favorite form of travel art.

Shigaraki II
#167-2009
24x24, Acrylic on birch panel
950.00

From the Depth To the Height
#155-2009
24x24, Acrylic on birch panel
950.00

That That Surrounds, That That Is
#2-2010
24x24, Acrylic on birch panel
950.00

Slow is an Option
#159-2009
24x24, Acrylic on birch panel
950.00

Update: Richard Duning

Richard Duning’s Busy September

This year, Richard had two exhibitions of his work running simultaneously during the month of September.

A show of his Relic Series opened in Riverside, California. This group of paintings are embedded with objects such as leaves, sticks, rocks, gourds, – even a snakeskin. Some are on paper, some on board in a variety of sizes. Richard’s opening was part of the Riverside Artwalk, and he had a good look at the growing art scene in that city.

Noises II (#1-2009), Mixed Media, 48" x 36", $3800

This That Develops (#34-2009), Mixed Media, 22.5" x 34", $2000

Then Richard jet-setted back home, where an exhibition of his collaborative dream paintings was opening at Piante Gallery in Eureka. Richard and a friend, Madeline McMurray, have been sharing dreams and painting them together for several years. This exhibition showed 18 of their big, 30x44” works, acrylic on paper, a colorful and dynamic exploration of images and interactions.

Before returning home with the Riverside pieces, Richard and his partner Nancy fulfilled a dream of camping for a week in Chaco Canyon. There, they studied the ancient Puebloan ruins and artifacts, and Richard created a series of sketches and drawings. This trip culminated a summer of travel, which included a pottery village in France, ancient ruins in Sicily and even more ancient Neolithic ruins in Malta, all inspiration for future artwork.

To see more of Richard Duning and Madeline McMurray's collaborative paintings, please click here. To see Richard's work through SD Gallery, please click here.