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Available paintings – Jan 2025

January 16, 2025 RicHorner Leave a comment

On this page you’ll find all of Ric’s available work. Please contact him directly for interest in any of these works. For impressions of his current studio exhibition see the link: January Sales

Untitled (15), oil on canvas, 88 x 65 – available – £ 1500

Please note, all international orders of original oil paintings should always include insurance. Postal costs will vary according to size & weight, as all paintings are sent in bespoke wooden crates for protection. For insurance quotes and p&p contact him at: enquiries@richorner.com, or tel.: 07835294317

Large commissions start at £ 1500.

Untitled (12), 20 x 20cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 180

Solstice, 30 x 30cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 350

Calm evening, 79 x 79cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 1200

Untitled (16), 25 x 25cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 250

West Beach, Whitstable. oil on textured wood panel. 88 x 98cm – available – £ 1800

Autumn beach at sunset, 55 x 63cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 1500

West Beach to Sheppey, 48 x 90cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 1250

Sea dream, 60 x 42cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 650

Rain Gap, West Beach, oil on canvas, 44 x 55cm – available – £ 650

Cloud study (1), 60 x 30cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 450

Summer Storm Clouds, 30 x 60cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 450

Heavy weather at Salcombe, 61 x 67cm, oil on wood panel – available – £ 650

First Light, 71 x 81cm, oil on wood panel (framed) – available – £ 750

Salcombe Harbour, 26 x 26cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 350

Sunlit Clearing, 71 x 71cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 350

Margate Harbour Evening Light, 22 x 22cm, oil on canvas – available – £ 180

Cloud study (2), 42 x 51cm, available – £ 350

Cloud structures, 30.5 x 23cm, available – £ 300

Cloud Race, 20 x 20cm, available – £ 140

Plein Air Painting Courses

January 15, 2025 RicHorner

Ric W. Horner is a qualified art tutor and has worked professionally for over 35 years. He has exhibited his atmospheric land & seascape paintings widely and has sold his art all over the world. He is now offering inspirational day courses, or 1-to-1 tuition at his characterful, purpose built art studio tucked away in a secret garden in Whitstable on the North Kent coast.

This unique location provides the perfect setting for stunning sunsets and dramatic beach scenes.

In this course, he will work with you either in his studio, garden, or directly on the seafront (a 3 minute walk), Whitstable Harbour and other places, to identify areas in which you can best improve your technical skills, abilities and confidence.

You will learn about composition, contrasts, colour tones and theory, as well as receive guidance on all the materials needed to construct a successful land, or seascape painting.

Classes are kept small ( maximum of 5 participants), so that you will get lots of individual attention and ensure the highest quality of experience. They are intended for beginners and intermediate painters. Please bring your own lunch and art materials.

£ 95 10am-4:30pm

£ 50 for 2 ½ hours

We are currently considering Saturdays + Wednesdays for day retreats during the warmer months, but are flexible in regards to other days and hours.

Free Parking is available at the top of the hill, near the Rose in Bloom pub (a 3 minute walk). However due to this very steep location, it is not suitable for wheelchairs users, or frail people. During your stay you will have access to Ric’s oil painting exhibition, as well as an opportunity to pick up some lovely greeting cards and prints.

Call: 07835294317, or email: enquiries@richorner.com to register your interest,

Ric’s latest studio exhibition

January 1, 2025 RicHorner

Established land & seascape painter Ric Horner focuses in his work on the elemental qualities of light, the energy of weather and the drama of the sea. He creates highly atmospheric oil paintings featuring classic Kent coast and harbour scenes, as well as the stunning sunsets seen on Whitstable beach. He has recently set up a permanent GALLERY SPACE at the front of his house with a rolling exhibition of finished pieces.

If you are visiting Whitstable, this is a wonderful opportunity to meet the artist in his studio, pick up some lovely greeting cards and view his original paintings while passing by on a scenic (circular) walk only 20min from town centre. You can combine it with stops at some of our most well-known pubs: The Old Neptune on West Beach, The Rose in Bloom in Joy Lane, (next door to Ric’s place), and The Sportsman gastro pub in Seasalter, which is famous for it’s Michelin Stars and having been awarded winner of Gastro pub 2024.

The studio is open most days from 10:30am – 5pm.

All of Ric’s paintings are for sale and can be pre-viewed at: Available paintings – Jan 2025. To arrange a visit, book a 1-to-1 tuition, or a painting retreat for small groups up to 5 people call 07835294317, or email

enquiries@richorner.com

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Ric shares this space with his partner @Annett_Banx, who works in a distinct, semi-abstract style that focuses on their colourful wildlife garden and koi fish pond. Between the two of them they offer various day courses and 1-to-1 tuition. Get in touch if you are interested.

Artist working on Whitstable Beach

November 8, 2024 RicHorner

It’s now 12 years ago that Ric W. Horner has moved into the late Dan Sherrin’s quirky cottage on The Saxon Shore Way in Whitstable, a long-distance footpath in England, which starts at Gravesend, Kent, and traces the coast of South-East England for 163 miles in total. He is one in a long line of artists , writers and novelists that made the town their home, for reasons such as the gorgeous light and stunning sunsets.

“Since moving into the late artist Dan Sherrin’s old cottage, I have set up my studio at the front of the house, which overlooks the sea. This has changed my working practice profoundly, as I now have a myriad of subject matter in front of me and I am less dependent on notes and colour sketches. I can now work directly on canvas from my subject and study in detail various sea states and “light events” which may have previously evaded me. It’s become possible to study storms in greater detail and track showers and their influence on the sea in some degree of comfort. Sadly, despite the house’s prominence and history, time and gravity has taken its toll, leaving it bereft of level floors, so when I first moved in, the horizon appeared to lean when looking out!”

Eccentric painter Dan Sherrin (1869 – 1940) was an artist that could not be missed about the town, as he insisted on wearing the most outrageously chequer plus-fours and his love of beer was legendary.

Dan was also a famous self-publicist of the most humorous kind, a practical joker who not only poked fun at those in authority – he even built his own airplane and created a spoof fire brigade!

One of Dan’s paintings still hangs in Buckingham Palace, as he was once commissioned by King George V. Furthermore. An elderly neighbour who lived nearby in Preston Parade Seasalter, has told Ric that he recalls seeing Winston Churchill plus entourage on the little foot bridge on Preston Parade, viewing the newly installed gun battery, which was right in front of the house in about 1943.

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Ric says: “My paintings have much to do with the changing energy of weather; encompassing all sorts of environmental conditions, which can range massively from attractive, peaceful and scenic to threatening and dangerous.” Furthermore, the famous British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) described the sunsets along the North Kent coast as some of the best in the world and just like him, Ric continues to explore these light conditions in his own work.

Ric opens his studio to the public on most days throughout the year. You can visit him and either buy some of his original paintings, prints and greeting cards.