About
@richardelliottwatercolour
Education
1983 – 84 Chester College of Art; Foundation Course
1984 – 87 Manchester Metropolitan University; BA (Hons) Fine Art
1987 – 90 Royal Academy Schools, London; Postgraduate Diploma
Exhibitions
Solo
2002 Ground Level, Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
1995 Places of Transit, Reeds Wharf gallery, London
Group
2024 Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh
2024 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour Open 2024 (prizewinner)
2024 RWS Spring exhibition, London
2023 RWS Autumn Exhibition, London
2023 RWS Open Exhibition, London (prizewinner)
2020 Royal Academy of Arts Summer exhibition, London
2019 Westmorland landscape exhibition
2019 Sunday Times Watercolour competition, Mall Galleries
2019 Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries
2018 Bo Echo Gallery, London
2018 Sunday Times Watercolour competition, Mall Galleries, London (prizewinner)
2017 Royal Academy of Arts, Summer exhibition, London
2017 The British Society of Self Depreciation, Cheng Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2016 Royal Watercolour Society, Mall Galleries, London
2013 A Bitter Sweet Salon, Margate (curated by Peter Fillingham)
2012 8 + 1 =16, Chelsea Future Space, London
2011 H2O, Chelsea Future Space, London
2011 Fraternise, Beaconsfield, London
2011 Ideal Home, Chelsea Space, London
2011 The Imagination of Children, V&A’s Museum of Childhood, London
2010 Intransit (Richard Elliott, Francis Thorburn) for The Sharing Picnic, Arnold Circus, London
2009 Bold Tendencies, curated by Hannah Barry Gallery, London
2009 Bricks, Area 10, Peckham
2006 False Sentiment, Gallery 33, Berlin (two person)
2006 Silent Film, Camberwell Space, London (two person)
2005 By Way of Amusement, Gallery IOTA, Ramsgate (two person)
2003 PGCE exhibition, Institute of Education, London
2002 Prospects, Essor Gallery Project Space, London
1999 BP Young European Artists, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
1998 Night Shift, Gasworks gallery, London (two person)
1998 Close to Home, Galerie UFF, Budapest, Hungary
1998 The Local, Standpoint gallery, London
1997 Sad, Gasworks gallery, London
1995 The Hanging Picnic, London
1994 Solomon Gallery, Dublin
1993 Gallery 10, London
1992 Gallery 10, London
1991 Cadagon contemporary, London
1990 The Clearings, London
1990 Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin
1990 Bonhams contemporary art auction, London
1989 Centenary Celebration, Manchester Metropolitan University
1989 Coach House Contemporary Art, Cumbria
1988 Singer and Friedlander, Mall galleries, London (prizewinner)
Awards
2024 RI 2024 Windsor and Newton Award
2023 RWS Trevor Frankland Award for most popular painting by public vote.
2018 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2015 St Elite Academy/UAL residency, Beijing
2009 Residency, Joya, Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain
1991 Royal Watercolour Society (1st Prize)
1988 Singer and Friedlander
1987 David Murray Prize (Landscape painting)
Collections
Prebon Marshall & Yamane Ltd (Fleet Street), Zeneca (Stanhope Gate, Mayfair), English Heritage (Down House)
National Trust (Knole House), Sir Jocelyn Stevens (Eltham Palace), Freshfields Solicitors (St Brides Church)
Singer and Friedlander (King’s Cross Station), Manchester City Art Gallery, Esso UK Ltd, Chevron UK Ltd
TSB and many private collections in UK and Ireland including John Hurt and Tony O’Reilly