Richard Bawden RWS NEAC RE is a painter, printmaker and designer working predominantly in lino, etching and watercolour. His work has a graphic, linear quality and a strong sense of craftsmanship, which translates naturally into many forms. These have included book illustration, murals for restaurants, engraved glass, church windows and doors, a poster for London Transport, mosaics and furniture.

Richard Bawden portrait
Richard Bawden image
Richard Bawden image
Richard Bawden image
Richard Bawden image

Born in 1936, the son of the well-known artist, Edward Bawden, R.A. Richard studied painting, printmaking and graphic design at Chelsea, St Martin's and the Royal College of Art. His subject-matter is wide ranging - from his Hadleigh sitting room, cats, and garden to townscapes and landscapes. He says: 'Visually excited by what I see, I am driven by compulsion to draw and paint…Sometimes I am excited by the sheer grandeur of a place, and sometimes by the richness and depth of colour and texture. I am not ashamed to say that I love decoration yet also the presence of monumental geometric simplicity and the tension of a straight line.'

Based in Suffolk, Richard has had over fifty one man exhibitions at home and abroad; most recently a major retrospective at Gainsborough's House in Suffolk. He has work in Royal, public and private collections, and has taught drawing and printmaking at several London and provincial art schools.

Richard is a Council member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS), an elected member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), a member of the New English Art Club (NEAC), and a former Chairman of the Gainsborough House Print Workshop in Sudbury.