Barbara Richardson was born in 1944. She studied contemporary painting at the Chelsea School of Art between 1975 and 1979. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting.
At Chelsea Art School Barbara Richardson was awarded the Christopher Head Scholarship and represented the college at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters .
Barbara Richardson has exhibited her contemporary paintings regularly at the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibitions, New English Art Club, Royal Society of Portrait Painters (Mall Galleries), Royal Institute of Painters in Oil, Royal Society of British Artists , Royal Watercolour Society, and the Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times Art competition in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
Barbara Richardson's contemporary paintings have appeared in numerous press reviews. These include: the Sunday Telegraph, Artist Magazine, RBA Illustrated Catalogue and the RBA Newsletter as well as regional press art features.
In addition to Red Rag British Art Gallery Barbara Richardson art work has been exhibited at other leading British Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Barbara Richardson artist studio and like all Red Rag British art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide.
