Still Lifes

thumbnail link The Team, oil emulsion painting on canvas The Team
thumbnail link Painting Dad and the Boys Dad and the Boys
thumbnail link Plastic Bag with Lemon and Orange, acrylic painting Plastic Bag with Lemon and Orange
thumbnail link Buoys in Cardboard Box, oil and tempera painting Buoys in Cardboard Box
thumbnail link Winter1 Light1 oil and tempera painting Winter Light #1
thumbnail link Winter2 Light2 #2, oil and tempera painting Winter Light #2
thumbnail link Box and Table, oil and tempera painting Box and Table
thumbnail link Firewood #3, oil and tempera painting Firewood #3
thumbnail link Five Iron Pots #2, oil and tempera painting Five Iron Pots #2
thumbnail link Red Dot, oil and tempera painting Red Dot
thumbnail link Painting Threesome Threesome

Visual Poetry of Objects, High Realist Still Life Paintings

Richard Davis’s still lifes are emblems expressing visual poetry among objects. In his keen, penetrating studies of mundane objects that are easily overlooked, ignored, Davis unlocks entire histories that are as much a property of the things themselves, as they are of the absences they signify.

The elegance of compositions, the sensual way that the paint has been applied on the supports, even the mode itself all serve the purpose of describing light as an active agent in conveying meaning.

For Davis, light is much more than a subtle way to illuminate his subjects. It is a radiant muse and siren.

Winter Light #2 full background