In March 2024, Richard joined Artimage – the image licensing platform for modern and contemporary art, from DACS – the UK’s flagship visual artists’ rights management organisation. Further, we are delighted to learn that Richard is the Artimage Featured Artist for the month of April, 2024. View Richard's Profile and Images on Artimage. Richard Spare’s work, that spans drypoint, etching, drawing and painting is largely inspired by his travels and by his love of nature. Richard Spare is our featured artist this month. — DACS/Artimage DACS now represents Richard Spare for all Copyright Licensing ..read more

  Bidding Open 3rd – 12th November   Richard is proud to be an Invited Artist together with Julian Opie, Patrick Hughes, comedian Joe Lycett, and the lead singer of The Cure, Robert Smith, alongside many more at the hugely successful Heart Research UK Anonymous heART Project, in aid of lifesaving medical research into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease.       Richard's three donations have been taken from an artist's proof of the sold-out 1990's artwork 'Bird of Paradise' which is held in the permanent collections of the British Library and the Ber ..read more

Bidding Open 9th – 23rd November Private View: 21st November at Gathering, London W1B 5LU | RSVP HERE Richard and Kay are proud to be Invited Artists alongside Rana Begum RA, Hurvin Anderson RA, Kaffe Fassett MBE, Anne Rothenstein, Chris Orr MBE RA, Helen Beard, Ian Ritchie CBE RA, and many more at the Art on a Postcard (AOAP) Winter Auction 2023 in aid of The Hepatitis C Trust.   Take a look at Richard and Kay's donated artworks, highlighted in the posts below, from AOAP.   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Art on a Postcard (@artonapostcard)   View ..read more

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The 170th Autumn Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) 9 September 2023 until 14 January 2024 Richard is proud to be exhibiting his drypoint and watercolour print Swallow at the prestigious 170th Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Autumn Exhibition in Bristol. The RWA's renowned annual open exhibition is returning for its 170th iteration with a stunning variety of work from emerging and established artists. [Images: 169th Autumn Exhibition, installation views, RWA, 2022. Photography: Alice Hendy] The Royal West of England Academy is a Grade II* listed building in ..read more

Artworks by Kay Spare are now available online through richardspare.art/kay-spare 20th July 2023 ..read more

The 2023 Annual Open Exhibition at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (RCamA) 7 January – 25 February 1 April 2023 Extended by popular demand Richard is proud to be exhibiting his drypoint and watercolour print Pipit (Easy Rider) at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (RCamA) 2023 Annual Open Exhibition in Conwy. This is the first time Richard will be included in this prestigious exhibition - the longest running annual open in Wales.   RCamA Formed in 1881 and constituted in 1882 by Queen Victoria, the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (RCamA) is a unique institution in Wales - an indepe ..read more

The 169th Autumn Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) 8 October 2022 until 8 January 2023 Richard is proud to be exhibiting his drypoint and watercolour print Linnet at the 169th Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Autumn Exhibition in Bristol. The RWA's renowned annual open exhibition is returning for its 169th iteration with a stunning variety of work from emerging and established artists. This will be the RWA's first Autumn Exhibition since reopening in June 2022 after the biggest refurbishment in its 175 year history. Images: 168 Annual Open Exhibition, installation view ..read more

Richard is proud to be an Invited Artist alongside Gilbert and George, Billy Childish, Axel Scheffler, Pure Evil, Thomas Taylor, Korky Paul and many more at the #SophiesPostcard2022 charity auction. 'Secret' artists from around the world have donated work to raise much needed funds for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity in memory of pupil, Sophie Maria Taylor (2004-2017). Sophie's Secret Art Auction will run for 10 days online and ends on Saturday 9th July 2022 Each postcard will have a starting bid of just £1. Will you find the 'secret' artists work?     View th ..read more

We are delighted that Richard is once again showing work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Redwing in the Rain is on show in Gallery VIII, which has been selected and humorously hung by Grayson Perry CBE RA, for the 254th Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition in London. [Richard Spare's 'Redwing in the Rain' being predated by an artwork by Ian Ritchie CBE RA, In Gallery VIII - curated by Grayson Perry CBE RA]. This is Richard's 29th Summer Exhibition, the largest and most prestigious Open Exhibition in the world - having been held annually, without fail, since 1768. A small flock o ..read more