DACK, Richard

1944 - ?

Richard George Dack was born in Norfolk on 27 September 1944, son of Alwyn George Dack (6 August 1924-2005) and his wife Betty D. née Hawes (10 June 1917-2005), who married at Norwich in 1943. Richard grew up at Lowestoft, Suffolk, at the time it was a flourishing port with a bustling fish market and busy shipyards, and this environment provided the subject matter for his first serious adventures into painting whilst at school. Richard was educated at Lowestoft Grammar School and studied painting and printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts 1963-1967, Reading University 1967-1968, and the University of Sussex 1974-1975. Following art school, he taught for a while in Cambridgeshire, and later in Devon and made the transition to a professional painter in 1997. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and a member of the Royal West of England Academy and the Royal Society of Marine Artists where, since becoming a member, has received the 'Shipwrights Prize' on two occasions, the 'Classic Boat Prize' and in 2010 the 'Sea Pictures Gallery Working Relationship with the Sea' Prize and was the chairman and secretary of the Group. He is to be found working along the estuaries and coastline at a variety of locations from the rugged shores of the southwest to the wide-open spaces of North Norfolk. In these situations, light is frequently the focus of his work, and he is fond of the delicate and transient quality of light that is characteristic of the east coast. He has exhibited at Coves Quay Gallery, Salcombe; Buckenham Galleries, Southwold, Suffolk and with the East Anglian Group of Marine Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and elsewhere. His work has featured in major Open Competitions and is the collections of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights. He lived at 12 Mirbecks Close, Worlingham, near Beccles, Suffolk.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Pheasantry, West Charlton, Kingsbridge, Devon
1985 164 Welder

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Works by This Artist