ARTSRWC: ART on the Square is next Friday. Father's Day is Sunday...time to shop!

YO REDWOOD CITY!

It has come to this…Friday is the first ART on the Square for 2013, and Sunday is Father’s Day.  We will have 24 amazing artists that will display their creations from woodworking to leather, to photos, jewelry, paintings, ceramics and more.  And we would like to remind you that Redwood City is blessed with GREAT local artists.  We would like to turn the spotlight on a local artist who has basked in it for much of his career.

MEET Richard Becker, an American Painter and Historical Artist, who was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1951. He came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1954, studied at the San Francisco Academy of Arts in the mid-seventy’s and is one of San Francisco Bay Area’s renowned painters.  And he keeps busy!

Richard has been teaching art classes over the past twenty years in watercolor, acrylics, life drawing, landscape painting, illustration, graphic storytelling, fantasy illustration, and cartooning.  He recently taught a class at SWA Gallery on Broadway that was very well received.

This is his first time participating in ART on the Square, and he is looking forward to the downtown event.  Richard, a Redwood City resident, notes  “I've lived here all my life, the weather is the best in the world, and so much to paint in this area, the hills, coast, parks & gardens. Just love it here.”  And we love being able to show off this hidden artistic gem in our show!

Some history of Richard’s artistic journey:

His early influences were Howard Pyle, M.C. Wythe and the English Edwardian Illustrators.

In the mid-ninety’s, Becker was commissioned to do works for the History channel and A&E television.

Richard Becker has repeatedly been a featured artist at the Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto. His landscapes have been exhibited at the Los Altos Art Gallery, at Christine Oliver’s studio in Cupertino, and at the Belmont gallery. 

Right now you can get a sneak peek at Richard’s seascapes being displayed in the window of Mayer’s Jewelers on Broadway.

Can’t arrrrrrrg-ue with his success

In 1998 Richard’s artworks were exhibited at the San Diego Maritime Museum where he did a number of historical compositions on pirates.

One of Becker’s paintings from the back cover of “Piracy, Days of Long Ago titled “My Treasure” can be seen on the 2003 DVD release of “Pirates of the Caribbean – Curse of the Black Pearl” in the section “An Epic at Sea” under costumes and makeup.

Richard’s works can also be seen in the 2006 anniversary release of the “Princess Bride” on DVD, in the special feature on “The Dread Pirate Roberts”. 

Richard also exhibits annually at the “Gold Coast Festival” in Ojai, California and has done a number of diverse compositions on a variety of subjects including portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolor.

We are honored to feature the paintings of Redwood City’s own Richard Becker at ART on the Square.  And we appreciate your support of our artists!

See you Friday night…be sure to sign up to win a $25 gift certificate to buy art.  See any artist on Hamilton.

And remember to Always Follow your H’art!!