Richard is a land-based earth artist with his studio and work based in Southern Ontario. He was born in New Jersey and raised in the midwestern United States and on a family farm, moving to Toronto, Canada in 1987. Self-identifying as a Canadian/American artist with work bridging both countries, his art practice remains based at a live/work barn Studio in the Canadian Shield, exploring both an inner spiritual connection to nature along with environmental and climate change issues. His work has received feature print and television coverage, along with solo exhibitions and commissions. 

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Exhibitions include: The Ark sculpture under the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge City Park (2007),  The Three Seasons, MacLaren Art Centre, Ontario (2012), International Earth  Art Exhibition, Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, (2014), Earth Etchings, Tom Thomson Museum , Ontario (2019). Future exhibitions: Mobile Art Circus: Arktic Rescue Operation, Toronto ArtWorx (2022), Ghost Forest "Foret Phantom" , MA Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec (2023)

 

The Studio is a developing environmental art centre, located on a wooded acreage in a large converted barn like an overturned ship on the edge of the Canadian Shield, beside the Crowe River, 40 minutes east of Peterborough and 2 hrs. from Toronto. The barn and woods combine creation, production, exhibition, and education in an environmental context.

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For more extensive coverage please visit:

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richardwattssculpture.com

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