How the Work Is Made
Richie paints with the whole body — splashes, strokes and layered composition, in the lineage of Jackson Pollock.
There is no easel discipline here, no careful filling-in. A canvas is laid down and worked from every side — flung, dragged, built up in layers until the surface holds its own weight. Entirely self-taught, Richie found in abstraction the only language honest enough for what he wanted to say.
Some works explore nothing but texture and colour. Others carry materials that don't belong on a canvas at all. Every piece is a record of transformation — of pressure, rejection and survival turned into something that holds light.
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In the Studio
Before the Work
Art of Smoke · Cigar Secret
In Art of Smoke, the brush is set aside entirely. Cigars, ash, tobacco and a hairdryer become the instruments — an abstract canvas built before a full house at the Cigar Secret lounge.
It was never about smoking. It was about reinvention — proof that the most unexpected everyday objects can be transformed into art, and that a method has no rules it cannot rewrite.
See the Art of Smoke ExhibitionArt is not decoration. It's defiance. It's survival.
In the crystal works, natural crystals — sourced from Vana Fine Jewellery — are set directly into the surface. Each piece answers the light of the room it hangs in, never the same twice.
The material is not ornament. Acrylic, resin and quartz hold the earthly and the ethereal in the same frame — brilliance built to stand for resilience.
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Crystal & Mixed Media
Layered movement across the canvas — controlled chaos, worked from every side until the composition resolves.
Crystal, resin, ash, tobacco — whatever the idea demands. The medium becomes part of the meaning.
Often created before an audience — a private performance where the work is finished in the room it's shown in.
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