About — Bob Richmond

Bob Richmond is an artist and arts facilitator with a dual lineage in both the arts and industry. His background merges the legacy of the Bells of the North, influential 19th-century industrialists and arts patrons, with the Richmond family, celebrated artists for over 250 years.

From an early age, Bob was mentored by the acclaimed artist and teacher Harry Thubron, who significantly shaped his artistic vision and skills. He is a Companion of John Ruskin’s Guild of St George and is currently is focussed on revitalising The Motor House in North Yorkshire as a space for making.

A series of workshops based around the work of Enzo Mari are to be held at The Motor House in Spring 2025, of which more news will follow soon.

Richard Wentworth on Bob Richmond –

“We should pay more attention to the accidents of learning and the delights of cross pollination, the smudges and overlays which are a commonplace in the arts and humanities, the same shimmer and blurring which are often the catalysts for permission and discovery in the sciences. Sharing experience with enough humility is a trigger for fertilising the most tentative thoughts, the release agent for creative confidence.”

Visitor’s book at The Dulwich Picture Gallery, with Vincent van Gogh’s signature, and address: The Hague

All photographs © Bob Richmond. With the exception of: Ronda, Spain 1974/75 © Richard Wentworth; Harry Thubron, Tom Hudson, Wendy and Victor Pasmore © Mark Hudson; Harry Thubron photographs from the collection of the National Arts Education Archive at Bretton Hall, Leeds; London street signs: © Alistair Hall; London screenshots: © BFI; Woman driving in red car: © Audemars Piguet; 'Telephone Less': © The Estate of Barnett Freedman; Hilly Boyd, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin & Anthony Powell: © The Estate of Philip Larkin; Paul Nash photographs: © Paul Nash Trustees in the Tate Gallery Archives of Twentieth Century British Art; Portraits of J.G. Ballard: © Bea Ballard; Portraits and paintings of and by Thomas Richmond, George Richmond & W.B. Richmond: © National Portrait Gallery, London & © Royal Academy of Arts, London. For the source material in 'Ancient Lights' thanks to the The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.