Description
‘Swamp Toxin’ by Richard Ingersoll
Artist: Richard Ingersoll
Title: ‘Swamp Toxin’
Medium: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 12″ x 9″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2023
About the Artwork:
“I was going to do a graphite piece on paper for this but at the last minute decided I wanted to challenge myself to do a monochrome piece in oil with another color. This is really the result of just playful meandering and was slightly inspired by a Superman pose. Probably my favorite thing with painting lately is just thinking about light and shadow. More so than the forms themselves. How does the light and shadow obscure or react to the implied form? That was the pivot foot of creating this painting.” – Richard Ingersoll
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Richard Ingersoll is a Denver based artist who expresses work across many mediums but tends to most frequently find a home in oil painting. While he has practiced traditional forms of art since a very young age, his artistic journey became the focal point of his life after taking residence in the Westword award winning psychedelic pirate DIY house venue known as Mouth House in the 5-points district of Denver in 2010. It was here that the vision of a career in visual arts crystallized doing comedy and live entertainment poster illustrations, merch design for bands, live painting at music events, showing at the Red Wolf Gallery, and booking music and showing work at the VFW post 1 in Denver’s Santa Fe art district. Since then he has shown in venues all over Colorado and across the country, sold work all over the world, and continues to do freelance work and show while keeping it weird.