“Experiments with painting, ideas and thinning the medium with lots of water, has been my passion, and ongoing center of investigation ever since i finished the Funen Art Academy DK. I make use of the different ways pigments dry up and how the texture can interact. I want my painting to seem effortless, but in reality it is based on a lot of failure and try-outs before the perfect stroke and energy beams from the finished work.”
Danish artist Indigo Richards´ paintings often contain abstractions from nature, what she sees and experiences in her vicinity, such as mushrooms from the lawn at the studio, cacti from the garden at the Artist residency, her neighbors at home, and the mountain of garbage at her studio.
She has developed her own techniques with fluid colors, wet on wet, with watercolor, acrylic and water-based oil on canvas.
Indigo Richards was born in 1966 in Ibiza, Spain, with an American father and a Danish mother. At the age of 10, she moved to Denmark, lives and works today in Odense. She graduated from the Funen Art Academy in 1993.
In 2024, her solo exhibition “A haven” opened at Galleri ArtC in Haderslev with paintings inspired by an Artist Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico 2023.
In 2023, she showed the solo exhibition “Metal Mountain” at Galleri Sandberg, Odense, inspired by a mountain of waste at the harbor in Odense where she works in her studio and a mountain in Spain at Fundación Valparaiso.
Back in 2009, it was the collected plants from the botanist Carl von Linne’ that were the inspiration for the solo exhibition ARTER at Gallerie Rasmus in Odense and Det Ny Kastet, Thisted DK.
Together with the art group QWERTY, she has exhibited many places in the world, e.g. New York, Stockholm, Helsinki, Lisbon and Berlin.
Armpit painting performance at Juxtapose Art Fair 2021, Århus, Godsbanen with QWERTY. https://www.juxtaposeartfair.com/