Russell Frampton

Russell Frampton, painter and musician, was born in 1961 in Hampshire. He was educated at Portsmouth and at Exeter Art Colleges (BA), later taking his MA in Fine Art at the University of Plymouth and is now living in Devon. 

‘My landscape-based abstract paintings are concerned with layering and texture to produce almost archaeological substrata appearing quarried from the raw materials of the landscape itself. I use collage and small obsessively detailed areas of drawing to build up surfaces that have both formal compositional elements and take advantage of chance occurrences in the painterly process. 

My time as a painter is split between a studio in mid Devon and a workspace in West Brittany, both elemental areas that provide the basis for many of my works, as well as trips to Scotland.  I am deeply interested in the light and colour that reside in the wild places, from the sea cliffs of West Brittany to the Moorlands of Devon and Highlands of Scotland. I attempt to synthesise the many elements of a place into a final work building complex surfaces using layering techniques, retaining both detail and clarity, and creating a charged union of the formal and textural aspects. The division of the painted space using a ‘horizon’ is a strong theme in the work, depicting both an actual line of disappearance and acting as a metaphor for the balance that resides in the natural world.   

I have also been working with the depiction of interior spaces searching for the sublime in the mundane through arrangement and colour, infusing the paintings with light to allow areas of colour to spark against the brightness of large areas of white.

I have exhibited widely in the South West and in London, including the major London Art Fairs, Dublin Art Fair  and have work in private collections in Europe, Japan and the USA.’ 

Russell Frampton 

2012                                       Solo Show, Smelik & Stokking Gallery, The Hague. 

2013                                       Arboreal, Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London. 

2014                                       Land, Sea, Sky - Highgate Contemporary Art, London.

2014                                       All at Sea - Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London. 

2015                                       Views and Variations, Wills Art Warehouse, London.  

2015                                       Spring Exhibition, Highgate Contemporary Art, London.  

2016                                       Two Person Show, Hatch Gallery, Christchurch.   

2016                                       Mixed Show, Bell Fine Art, Winchester.

2016                                       Three Person Show , Highgate Contemporary Art,  

                                               London. 

2017                                       AAF Battersea – Hatch Gallery.

2017                                       Greenstage Gallery, Hereford. 

2018                                       AAF Stockholm, New York, Hampstead. 

2018                                       GalleryTop,  Derbyshire.

2018                                       Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London.

2018                                       Flowers - Hatch Gallery, Christchurch.                                                      

Collections – work in private and corporate collections: UK (including The Bank of England, Cambridge University), USA, Japan.