Richard Michelle-Pentelbury

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• Publications

  Two novels:

  → ADMISSION, and TRANSITION at:
  https://www.amazon.com/author/richardpentelbury

  → Richard Michelle-Pentelbury
  ARTBOX.Publish Switzerland
  ISBN Nr. 978-3-0366-0406-0

  → Premier Artist Prize 2025
  Richard Michelle-Pentelbury
  (pp.120, 121) Published by Contemporary Art Station
  ISBN 979-13-87610-72-2

• Exhibitions

  Various works shown in:

  → Basel (Switzerland);

  → Calgary (Canada);

  → Miami (Florida);

  → Nanaimo (Vancouver Island);

  → New York (USA);

  → Paris (France);

  → Sidney (Canada);

  → Sooke (Vancouver Island);

  → Thunder Bay (Ontario);

  → Venice (Italy);

  → Zurich (Switzerland);

• Awards

  (Art)

  → 2021- Gallery Ring: Merit Award

  → 2023- Circle Foundation: Artistic Excellence

  → 2023- Gallery Ring: Merit Award

  → 2023-American Art Award

  → 2023-World Art Award

  → 2024-Circle Foundation: Masterful Mind Award

  → 2024-Gallery Ring: Emerald Award

  → 2024-Art Collectors' Choice Award

  → 2025-Contemporary Art Station: Premier Artist Prize

• Links

  →http://www.richardmichellepentelbury.com/

Passing Through Too, 2012. Oil on canvas, 107 x 183 cm.

Sleeve detail: (Metamorphosis) Passing Through Too, 2012. Oil on canvas, 107 x 183 cm.

African Iris, 1982. Oil on canvas, 107x122 cm.

Soul Spring, 1977. Oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm.

De Historia et Veritate, (Quebec's Plains of Abraham), 1981. Oil on canvas, 123 x 153 cm.

Visiting Granny, 2022. Oil on Canvas, 61 x 91 cm.

Inter-Continental Voyageur, 2024. Oil on canvas, 46 x 61 cm.

Blue North, 1976. Oil on canvas, 107 x 137 cm.

Destiny? 1997. Oil on canvas, 122 x 137 cm.

Old School Cricket, 2020. Oil on canvas, 61 x 91 cm.

Born in Zimbabwe, raised in Zambia, high-schooled in Pretoria, conscripted to South Africa's National Army Service, R. Michelle-Pentelbury eventually became a full-time artist, and now works from his busy studio on Canada’s Vancouver Island. A multiply awarded artist, as well as actor, singer, theatre director, teacher, and writer, Richard deploys his diverse and integrative interests into his often complex works, investing them with the metaphysical and symbolic. His preferred medium is most frequently with oil-glazes.

“Since art speaks independently to each of us, in differing voices during our times with it, we evidently bring our own lives to its presence. The feeling, or reaction, stirs; comprehending the esoteric alters with one’s ongoing knowledge; resonating with an image's implications is a dance with one’s changing affinities; and as such, the medium, the skills applied, and the intentions of the imagery may well continue to move in one's own translations. The intention is to provoke exploration of the human condition. Depictions of the metaphysical, in these terms, are an ongoing invitation to a dialogue.” ~R. Michelle-Pentelbury