Richard Ballinger Paintings for Saleb 1957

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  • The Winding Road Through Many Greens
    Richard Ballinger
    The Winding Road Through Many Greens, 2025
    Sold
  • The Avenue to the Island
    Richard Ballinger
    The Avenue to the Island, 2025
    £ 16,500.00
  • Last Light Through the Woods
    Richard Ballinger
    Last Light Through the Woods, 2025
    Reserved
  • Green Moon, Night Falls
    Richard Ballinger
    Green Moon, Night Falls, 2025
    Reserved
  • Open Fields
    Richard Ballinger
    Open Fields, 2025
    Reserved
  • Green Day
    Richard Ballinger
    Green Day, 2025
    £ 7,750.00
  • The Retreat
    Richard Ballinger
    The Retreat, 2024
    £ 7,400.00
  • Still life, White Flowers
    Richard Ballinger
    Still life, White Flowers, 2024-2025
    £ 7,350.00
  • Still life, Blue Vase in Green
    Richard Ballinger
    Still life, Blue Vase in Green, 2024
    £ 5,400.00
  • The Blue Vase
    Richard Ballinger
    The Blue Vase, 2024
    £ 5,400.00
  • Red Field
    Richard Ballinger
    Red Field, 2024
    £ 4,600.00
  • Red Moon
    Richard Ballinger
    Red Moon, 2024
    Reserved
  • Forgotten Boundries
    Richard Ballinger
    Forgotten Boundries, 2024
    Reserved
  • The Winding Path
    Richard Ballinger
    The Winding Path, 2024
    Reserved
  • Deep Water, Green Mountain
    Richard Ballinger
    Deep Water, Green Mountain, 2024
    Reserved
Biography

Richard Ballinger is a British landscape and still-life painter.

 

“I do not draw in the landscape, I draw from it. It’s taken me inside, to the studio, imagining how it should be ... It's fun for me to make up relative scenarios about my life that will automatically create the right picture for me. Photographs, newspaper articles and books will sometimes help the process. Sometimes if the images are not right, a deconstruction will then take place. This is my favourite part of the journey — the shifting, sanding and scraping of paint, unearthing a brief history.”

 

Ballinger's recent landscape paintings explore the theme of solace from the memories of a child. Although painted in Cornwall, where Ballinger has lived and worked since 1999, and occasionally informed by drawings, his series of brightly coloured, beautiful landscapes are symbolic meditations on formative experiences of a happy, carefree childhood in idyllic, rural Gloucestershire.

 

In earlier works, he painted lonely figures in the landscape. Though in his more recent paintings, the figures within the paintings have been replaced by an obvious viewpoint for the imager, from the viewer. This avoids an overly determined narrative interpretation and encourages imaginative engagement. A protective wall of trees may stretch across the foreground, beyond which a thin line or path draws the eye up the picture plane towards the horizon. Perhaps like the artist as a child, we are taking refuge behind the trees, contemplating whether or not we dare to take the path into the unknown?

 

"Ballinger’s images, constructed with often thick impasto paint, interlocking shapes or blocks of colour, a nod to the symbolic style of post-impressionist painters such as Paul Gauguin. His varied treatment of the painted surface, from the meticulous application of small brushstrokes to vigorous scraping away and scoring, evidences the painting process over time. On one level, then, happy memories of childhood freedoms — a time spent roaming the countryside seeking adventure and taking risks — might be seen as a perfect metaphor for the explorative act of painting itself."

Virginia Button, Newlyn Art Gallery