Richard BAWDEN RWS, RE, MSDC, ARCA

Born in 1936 at Black Notley, Richard became the fourth member of his family to attend the Royal College of Art. He is a Member of:
The Royal Watercolour Society; the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers; the Society of Designer-Craftsmen, Suffolk Group;Twelve Printmakers, and a former chairman of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop, Sudbury, Suffolk (where he was a driving force for years).
Richard is a printmaker, painter and designer; commissions have included: book illustration; editions of prints for Christies Contemporary Art ; Editions Alecto; Curwen Prints; a poster for London Transport; mosaics for the bottom of a swimming pool ; cast iron cat furniture ; murals for three Suffolk restaurants ; Engraved glass screen {life-size} The Virgin and Child, plus Saints Andrew and Edmund for St Andrew’s Church at Belchamp St Paul;posters, tea towels and many watercolour drawings of private houses.

Taught part-time at Colchester School of Art, Waltham Forest Polytechnic,
City & Guilds of London School of Art, Goldsmith’s College, Hastings School of Art and Braintree College. He lives and works with his wife Hattie, whose pottery he sometimes decorates, and two cats.
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Writing in “Galleries” magazine, Peyton Skipwith said “Richard soon had to make the difficult decision whether to follow in his father’s footsteps: Edward Bawden is a hard act to follow, yet despite working in the same media, Richard is very much his own man”. His etchings, linocuts and watercolours, demonstrate his assured draughtsmanship and innate design sense, which he applies brilliantly to commissions for mosaics, murals, posters, tea-towels and even to cast iron furniture incorporating elegant cats.
Has had well over forty one man exhibitions, exhibited in countless mixed shows, he was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer shows, the Mall Gallery and Bankside Members shows

Selected Exhibitions:
Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham; Curwen Gallery; Bohun Gallery, Henley; The Minories, Colchester; Amalgam Gallery, Barnes; Michael Parkin; Chappel Galleries; Manchester Royal Exchange; Sally Hunter Fine Art; John Russell Galleries Ipswich; Aldeburgh Gallery.

His work is in numerous Private collections including that of HM Queen Elizabeth II; also in the Public collections of the V & A; Tate Britain; the Ashmolean Museum; Pictures for Hospitals; St Thomas’s Hospital ; Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Paintings