Richmond Burton was born in 1960 in Alabama, and studied architecture at Rice University, Houston, Texas. An abstract painter and printmaker, Richmond Burton lives and works in East Hampton, New York. With a background in architecture, many of Burton’s paintings stress visual order.
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Hard-edged geometrical forms dominated his early canvases, but later a more organic patterning emerged. Devoted to his work with what has been described as a ‘monastic’ fervour, he believes ‘painting is the only artistic activity without compromise’. .