Richard Fulham

Richard was born in Verdun, Quebec in 1951. He studied visual arts at the Collège du Vieux-Montréal and ceramics at the Atelier Julien in Quebec City. In the 80's, he was a professional ceramist for 12 years.

Since 1996, he has devoted himself to contemporary visual arts. He specializes in mixed media. Richard is a self-taught artist by personal choice. Automatism, instinct, freedom of gesture and chance are at the heart of his creative process. He describes himself as a passionate artist and a constant seeker.

At the beginning of 2000, he developed his own personal artist's technique, which he calls "free style painting and pasting". An instinctive creator, his works are characterized by an abstract fusion of several techniques and textures.

Richard has received several awards and bursaries throughout his career in recognition of the quality and originality of his artistic production.

Since 1999, he has presented some forty solo exhibitions and participated in nearly seventy group exhibitions in Quebec, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Mexico and Bulgaria. Richard participated in the 2nd Art-Collage Symposium in 2002, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, winning two major prizes. In 2003, he was the guest artist of honor at the 10th International Salon of Contemporary Collage in Paris. In 2004 he was invited as a guest lecturer and exhibitor at the Poughkeepsie Museum of Art in New York.

In 2010 he returned to Bulgaria, this time as the guest artist of honor at the 6th Plovdiv Art-Collage Symposium. During his stay, he gave a workshop to the students of the Tzanko Lavrenov School of Fine Arts. In 2014 he was invited as honorary president of the Salon de Noël de Visit art, Saint-Hyacinthe. In 2018 he was the guest artist to create collective works with the public at the 23rd Symposium de Chambly and received the same year an ARTO award (Arto Gallery) for the recognition of the excellence of his work.