Richard Atkinson Art

I know the minute I see a certain scene or composition that I want to paint it.  It can be a variety of subjects, from a natural landscape to sleds leaning against a barn wall or a child looking at a sunset across a lake or a barn or even a bobcat in the snow.

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The one thing I want to see in a painting is depth. For example, in the above painting there are five layers of depth.  If you look right into the center, the experience becomes almost 3D.  But when I'm talking about depth, I'm also talking about how you feel when the painting draws you in.

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I want my paintings to pull people in and take them back to a nostalgic memory or to a place they've never seen before and kick in their own creative imagination.  Hopefully they will be lifted out of their daily reality if only for a fleeting moment.

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--Richard Atkinson