Biography – Richard Hoare




Born : 17th February, 1967, Ipswich UK


Studios :


Parjan,                                             1 Cross Keys

Simorre,                                           39 High Street

Gers                                                 Shaftesbury

32420 France                                    Dorset

                                                        SP7 8JE


Contact :


mail@richardhoare.com


France: +33 67 81 68 676


UK: +44 77 54 191 084


Training :


Foundation Course, Cambridge College of Art and Technology 1986 – 1987

BA(Hons) Degree in Fine Art (2.1)Kent Institute of Art and Design (K.I.AD)1987-1990

Post Graduate Diploma Cyprus College of Art 1992-1993


Solo Exhibitions :


1994 ‘A Walk in Cyprus’ Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh

1995 ‘Light on Water’ Peter Potter Gallery, Edinburgh

1996 ‘Recent Work’ Friends Room Victoria and Albert Museum London

1997 ‘Recent Paintings’ The Quaker Gallery London WC2

1998 ‘Recent Work’  The Quaker Gallery London WC2

1999 ‘Recent Work’  54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2001 ‘Recent Paintings’  54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2001 ‘Recent Paintings’  Salisbury Library, Wiltshire

2002 ‘Recent Paintings’  54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2005 ‘Oaxaca Series’ Polanco, Mexico DF

2005 ‘France and Mexico’ 54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2006 ‘Prints and Drawings’  (Retrospective)First Class Teas, Cambridge

2007 ‘Recent Work’  54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2008 ‘Recent Work’  54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2010 ‘Tree drawings’ Le Salon, Auch, Gascony, France

2010 ‘Recent Work’  54 The Gallery Mayfair, London W1

2011 ‘ Drawings from Ancient Wiltshire ‘ Salisbury Library and Galleries .

2012  ‘ Summer Exhibition Featuring Richard Hoare’ Lemon Street Gallery , Truro

2015  Drawings made as Artist in Residence at Woburn Abbey  , exhibited at Woburn for one year



Selected Group Exhibitions :


1991 Group Show, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

1992 Work in C.D. Exhibition , Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

1994 Group Show, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

1994 Work in ‘City Image’ Exhibition, King Street Gallery, Bristol

1994 ‘Ten Young Painters’ John Martin Gallery, Albermarle St, London W1

1995 ‘Cystic Fibrosis Trust’ Exhibition, Bonhams, Knightsbridge, London

1997 ‘Young Masters’ Battersea, London

2001 ‘Black as Ink’ Gugeleton Gallery, Dorset

2002 ‘In Praise of Trees’ Salisbury Festival

2005  Colour and Form at The Sabin Gallery , Albermarle St, London W1

2006 Royal Society of Landscape Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2009 ‘Bark ‘ Festival – ‘Facination with Trees ‘ Dorset

2011 ‘Conflict’ Other Worlds exhibition organized by MoD and Wiltshire Gov. 
2013 Pictures exhibited at Lemon Street Gallery stand London Art Fair

2014 Invited to exhibit pictures as part of the Lemon Street 15 Year  Anniversary Exhibition   



Represented By :


Work Exhibited in Collections:

London, Canterbury, Bristol, Paintings in Hospitals UK, Scotland, France, Germany

Switzerland, Cyprus, Belgium, USA, Argentina and Russia .


Public Collections :


Wiltshire County Council,

C. Hoare & Co. Bank, Fleet Street, London

Invited to hang a rotating exhibition at ReD Plc UK HQ

Two books of Poetry are held in the Scottish National Poetry Library

The Bridgeman Art Library hold a collection of work in their data base


Publications :


‘Black as ink’ Reviewed in Blackmore Vale Magazine

Biographical entry in ‘British Artists Since 1940’, pub. Art Dictionary Ltd.

Mentioned in ‘Portscatho- An Artist’s Colony’ , By Chris Insol

‘Facination with Trees’ review in Blackmore Vale Magazine 17/04 /2009 page 10

La Depeche ( French Newspaper)  22 /01/ 2010 page 2

Catalogue of recent work produced by Cable Europe in  Brussels June 2010

Western Morning News 17 / 08 / 12 article on page 32

Article published in The Riverside Journal ( Spring 2015) concerning the Woburn Abbey  Artist  Residency