Award-winning landscape artist Richard Clare is known for his colourful and dynamic paintings of the northern landscape of England, and more recently of Tuscany where he lives most of the time. Making most of the hot climate, Richard paints plein-air. For his moorland inspired works, he goes back several times a year to his studio in Delph, on the edge of the English Pennines, creating his vibrant paintings from memory or sketches (never photographs), using colours which are not normally associated with the British landscape. Many people believe they depict the landscape better than real life.

For Richard, the final picture is only one part of the painting process, since he spends a lot of time sketching, walking in the landscape and soaking up the atmosphere. Back in the studio, inspired by these sketches and his emotions, he paints very quickly to get these impressions down on canvas. Hence his preference for using acrylics and oils applied predominantly with painting knives to create soft watercolour effects and heavy impasto marks.

In a very short space of time, Richard has gained a reputation for high quality, exciting and dynamic paintings. He has received media attention in national magazines and his artworks are included in many private collections throughout Britain and more recently in France, Italy, Spain and China. The painting IT'S RAINING AGAIN! was voted Favourite Painting at the Chairman's preview in the prestigious Laing Landscape and Seascape Art Competition in 2001, at The Mall Galleries, London.