About the Artist
Richard Watts is a ‘Land Artist’ with his studio located in southern Ontario. He was born in New Jersey and raised in the midwestern United States and on a family farm, moving to Toronto, Canada in 1987. As a result, Richard is a Canadian-American artist with work bridging both countries, and an art practice based at a live/work rural-barn studio, exploring both an inner spiritual connection to nature along with environmental and climate change issues. His work has received feature print and television coverage, along with solo exhibitions and commissions.
Exhibitions include: The Ark sculpture under the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge City Park (2007), 'Salmon Run' commission, Kelowna, BC (2006) (three steel sculptures), 'Green: A Color and a Cause', The Textile Museum, group show, Washington, DC (2011), 'The Weather', Greater Toronto Airport Authority, group show (2011), 'The Three Seasons', MacLaren Art Centre, Ontario (2012), 'The Three Seasons', Two Rivers Gallery (Museum), Prince George, BC (2014), 'International Earth Art Exhibition', Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, (2014), 'Place2B', Paris, France, group exhibition during COP21 Paris Climate Agreement (2015), 'Earth Etchings', Tom Thomson Museum, Ontario (2019), among others. Projects in-development and future exhibitions include: 'Mobile Art Circus: Arktic Rescue Operation', 'Passages' and 'Ghost Forest' at MA Rouyn-Noranda 2026-27 (with The People's Climate Collective), an exhibition at the New Canadian Canoe Museum, among others. Crowe River Studio is the artist's studio and a developing Environmental Art Centre located on a wooded acreage in a converted modern barn on the edge of the Canadian Shield beside the Crowe River, 2 hours from Toronto. The Centre combines creation, production, exhibition, and education into an environmental context. See more here. For further information, contact the artist at richard(at)rawart2.com or on the contact page here. |
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Video
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Earth Etchings and sculpture video montage
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Interview with the artist showing the Earth Etchings process, 2015
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Ark: Artist creates massive 40' boat sculpture, trucks it from Toronto to NYC Manhattan Bridge, 2015 (also see Ark page here)
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Ark: CBC Francais TV feature and artist interview with sculptor Richard Watts in New York City, 2015
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