Richard Crowe Jr | Bull Run

The artworks below are currently on display at the Bull Run, located in Shirley, MA.

Richard Crowe Jr. — Artist’s Biography

Born: Ayer, MA, a long time ago

Studio: A Very Small Room

I had kept my creative side and tendencies locked within a private little box for many years, keeping it my own secret in deference to a ‘serious’ side and a, perhaps, self-important yoke of responsibility. That isn’t to say it never bubbled, from time to time, to the surface or that I wouldn’t be that one person in a group distracted and/or transfixed by a painting or a print hanging on some wall somewhere and needed to be dragged back into the fold. On the whole, though, I suppressed that side of myself for many years.

It took a comment made in jest by my youngest daughter to tip the scales enough to drag myself out of my self-inflicted lethargy and stop finding excuses for not doing something and rather, reasons for actually doing things I had otherwise always harbored a secret desire to do.

I don’t necessarily feel pigeon-holed into a particular style or motif as yet, but find I do tend to paint out of intense emotions. They aren’t always the prettiest of emotions, but they often flow out quickly-full of intense, pure colours and sharp, quick strokes. The colours tend to be psychological in nature, pulled from the nature of the subject and the underlying emotions beneath. They are as much a purge as they are paintings – a way to express things perhaps better left unsaid openly, but there for the taking if one cares to search.