Richmond Burton

Burton's colorful and harmonious paintings and graphic work are composites of his vocabulary of organic shapes that flow together in undulating patterns resulting in unique multi-colored abstractions.

Holland Cotter of The New York Times once wrote of Richmond's work, that "Structure is never absent; it's just un-insistent, even accidental. The paintings are built up in stages, but never give the impression of being hard worked. They have a fluid, textural presence, like luxury fabrics printed with overlapping, off-register layers of patterning".

With a background in architecture, many of Burton's paintings stress visual order. Hard-edged geometrical forms dominated his early canvases, but his later work sees the emergence of organic patterning.