“...My landscape-based abstract paintings are concerned with layering and texture to produce almost archaeological substrata appearing quarried from the raw materials of the landscape itself. I use collage and small obsessively detailed areas of drawing to build up surfaces that have both formal compositional elements and take advantage of chance occurrences in the painterly process.
My time as a painter is split between my mid Devon studio and a West Brittany workspace -both elemental areas which provide the basis for many of my works. I am deeply interested in the light and colour that resides in the wild places, from the sea cliffs of West Brittany to the Moorlands of Devon.
I attempt to synthesise the many elements of a place into a final work - building complex surfaces,using layering techniques, retaining both detail and clarity, thus creating a charged union of the formal and textural aspects. The division of painted space using a ‘horizon’ is a strong theme in my work, depicting both an actual line of disappearance and acting as a metaphor for the balance that resides in the natural world.
I have also been working with the depiction of interior spaces searching for the sublime in the mundane through arrangement and colour, infusing the paintings with light to allow areas of colour to spark against the brightness of large areas of white.
I have exhibited widely in South West England and in London at the major London Art Fairs, British Art Fair, Dublin Art Fair and London Contemporary Art Fair. My work is in private collections in Europe, Japan and the USA...” Russell Frampton, August 2005
Part time M.A Fine Art, University of Plymouth.
Selected Recent Exhibitions
2005 Mixed Show, 3D Gallery, Bristol.
2005 Stark Gallery, AAF Spring, Battersea, London.
2005 Stark Gallery, Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow.
2005 Stark Gallery, AAF Bristol, Bristol.
2005 Art Ireland, Cork, Ireland.
2005 Two Man Show, Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London.
2006 Mixed Show, 3D Gallery, Bristol.
2006 Summer Show, Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London.
2006 Stark Gallery, Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow.
2006 Stark Gallery, Cork Art Fair, Cork, Ireland.
2006 Stark Gallery, Art Ireland, Dublin.
2006 Stark Gallery, Edinburgh Art Fair.
2006 Smelik & Stokking Gallery, The Hague.
2006 Smelik & Stokking Gallery, Rotterdam.
2006 Noel 2006, Highgate Fine Art, London.
2007 Solo Show, Art Terracina, Haven Banks, Exeter.
2007 Summer Show, Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London.
2007 Summer Show, Albany Gallery, Cardiff.
2007 Noel 2007, Highgate Fine Art , London.
2007 Mixed Show, Southdown Gallery, Leigh, Kent.
2008 Breath of Fresh Air, Will’s Art Warehouse, Putney.
2008 Stark Gallery, Canterbury.
2008 Smelik & Stokking Galleries, Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
The Hague.
2008 3D Gallery, Bristol.
2009 Glasgow Art Fair with Will’s Art Warehouse.
2009 New York Affordable Art Fair.
2009 Smelik & Stokking Galleries, Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
The Hague.
2009 3D Gallery, Bristol.
2009 Summer Show, Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London.
2009 Solo Show, Exeter University, Exeter.
2010 Mixed Show, Highgate Cont. Art, Highgate, London.
2010 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Will’s Art
Warehouse.
2010 Solo Show, Smelik & Stokking Gallery, Amsterdam.
Collections