Richard Burel was born in 1974 in Normandy, France. Before coming to live in the UK he travelled extensively around Asia and South America, an experience which he feels has greatly shaped his approach to painting.
Richard, who is entirely self-taught, has been particularly inspired by the different textures and colours of the stonework around the South West, from the warm tones of the Bath sandstone to the cooler more rugged granite of the Cornish coast.
Richard paints using a palette knife and mainly acrylic paint but also pastel, inks, and collage to gain the spontaneity as well as the vivid colours and textures so characteristic of his work.
