'Landscape is an easy pleasure, something everyone can have for free. I walk every single day - it takes you out of yourself. In fact, you don’t think about yourself and, from this point of view, it is rather like a temple, like church, like a meditation - life in general and the big picture.'
Rupert studied at the the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Slade School of Fine Art. He specialised in the methods and materials of artists and has since developed his own unique process of painting in the almost forgotten medium of egg tempera. This aqueous medium allows for further blending of representation and abstraction, with brush strokes almost entirely obscured through tooling and burnishing. Rupert's fascination with the reflective surface of water allows him to mirror, invert and distort his subject. The viewer's eye must travel ever upwards, following a rhythm from sharp to blurred brush marks.
Rupert went on to complete his MA in Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. Today, he paints and runs a landscape design practice. Landscape is at the core of all his work.
EXHIBITIONS
'Tales from the Riverbank', TIN MAN ART, London (2023)
Hamatethy, Cornwall (2019)
Josie Eastwood Gallery, Hampshire (2017)
Timothy Langston, London (2016)
The Whithurst Park Art Fair, Whithurst Park, West Sussex (2016)
Josie Eastwood Gallery, Hampshire (2016)
Cadogan Contemporary, London (2013)
Trafalgar Park Art Fair, Trafalgar Park, Wiltshire (2013)
Solo show, Mallet, Bond Street, London (2011)
‘Swiss Alps’, Farmillo Fuimano, London (2008)
‘Heaven and Earth', Farmillo Fuimano, London (2006)
Group show, Farmillo Fuimano, London (2004)
Group show, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London (2004)