Rick Fox
Rick Fox paints landscapes almost entirely plein air. Teaching and residing on the southern coast of Maine, he is surrounded by natural beauty; he visits the same spot over and over again, never tiring of the view. The light, time of day, and season create vastly different paintings from one to the other.
Each painting has a vivacity of application and color, even though the largest is 30x40.” They are gutsy, surprising, and sometimes chaotic. His paint, applied mostly using a palette knife, is laid down in thick, confident strokes with one streak bumping up against another and sometimes merging. Occasionally, small areas of the surface of a painting will appear to have been scraped away to reveal a wash of color instead of Fox’s characteristic pile of paint. It’s in these small moments that the viewer may wonder, if Fox is after more than just beauty—it's a thoroughly considered labor.
Fox, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art (MFA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BFA), studied with George Nick, a longtime realist painter and mentor to many painters in New England.
Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 2022, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Wellfleet, 2022, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Little Wind, York, Maine, 2023, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Hot Minute, 2022, oil on canvas, 12x9"> Inquire Evening, Highland Farm, York, Maine, 2023, oil on canvas, 12x9"> Inquire Morning Hum, 2023, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2023, oil on canvas, 12x9"> Inquire Crickets, 2022, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Piscataqua River, 2023, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Highland Farms, York, Maine, 2022, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Moon Fields, York, Maine, 2023, oil on canvas, 12x9"> Inquire Slipstream, 2023, oil on canvas, 12x9"> Inquire Spring, York, Maine, 2023, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Inlet on the Piscataqua, NH, 2023, oil on canvas, 30x30" Sold> Inquire Kittery, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 20x20"> Inquire Road To Black Mountain, Jackson, NH, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Spring, Rye NH, 2021, oil on canvas, 30x40" Sold> Inquire February, Kittery, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Road to Brave Boat Harbor, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Afternoon Kittery, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire West from Goat Island, Portsmouth, NH, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Woods, Kittery Point, Maine, 2019, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Toward Ballycastle Beach, County Mayo, 2021, oil on canvas, 30x40"> Inquire Highland Farms, York, Maine, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire August Evening Near Marsh Pond, NH, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Willows, New Hampshire, 2021, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Piscataqua River, New Hampshire, 2019, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire June Evening New Hampshire, 2021, oil on canvas, 16x20"> Inquire Wild Atlantic Way, County Mayo, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x18" Sold> Inquire Summer, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Pluck, 2020, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Late Afternoon, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Shelf Maker, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Calibration, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Tenant's Neighbor, 2021, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Afternoon Tea, 2020, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Considering Tuesday, 2020, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire The Ballinglen River, Ballycastle, Ireland, 2020, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Big Sky Magic, 2019-20, oil on paper, 5x7"> Inquire July Semenova, Latvia, 2018, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Marsh Pop, January, NH, 2019, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Piscataqua Sun, January, 2019, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Shekhinah, 2019, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Late Afternoon Blue, 2019, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Tent, Lahontan, Nevada, 2018, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Hokusai Grass, Oregon, 2018, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire January Painting, Sunny, 2019, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire September, Rye, NH, 2018, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire PLAYA, Summer Lake, Oregon, 2018, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Toward Paisley, Oregon, 2018, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire January, Portsmouth, 2018, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Silver Springs, Nevada, 2018, oil on canvas, 16x20"> Inquire Berrys Brook, NH, 2018, oil on canvas, 12x9"> Inquire Evening July, Semenova, Latvia, 2018, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire August, Rye NH, 2018, oil on canvas, 11x14"> Inquire Wiggle Room, Rye NH, 2018, oil on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Coyote Sun, 2018, oil on canvas, 16x12"> Inquire Summer Lake Oregon, 2018, oil on canvas, 18x24"> Inquire Sage Mountain, 2018, oil on canvas, 9x12"> Inquire Oxbow Overlook, 2018, oil on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Coronation, 2017, oil on canvas, 16x12" Sold> Inquire 6pm Whistle, Kittery Maine, 2017, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire On the Way Back, Kittery Maine, 2017, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Saturday Morning , 2017, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Afternoon Shift, 2016, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Hearing the Crows, 2017, oil on canvas, 14x14" Sold> Inquire King of Denmark, 2016, oil on canvas, 12x12" Sold> Inquire Gretel's Walk, 2016, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Spinning Hay, 2016, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire The Astrologer's Cottage, 2016, oil on canvas, 18x14" Sold> Inquire Wryneck Hobbler, 2016, oil on canvas, 14x11"> Inquire Maine Monkey Palace, 2016, oil on canvas, 18x14" Sold> Inquire Road to Bangor, 2016, oil on canvas, 24x20" Sold> Inquire Middle Left, 2017, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire Billow, 2016, oil on canvas, 9x12" Sold> Inquire Bottom of Braveheart Hill, 2016, mixed media on paper, 30x22" Sold> Inquire Seal's Rock, 2016, oil on canvas, 11x14" Sold> Inquire May Great Bay NH, 2016, oil on canvas, 24x20"> Inquire The Boxer, 2017, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Riddles with Guilt, 2017, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire Floating to Chauncey Creek, 2016, oil on canvas, 14x11" Sold> Inquire February, 2014, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Catch, 2014, oil on canvas, 12x9" Sold> Inquire Somerville, MA Toward East Chelsea, 2007, oil on canvas, 18x24"> Inquire
Rick Fox
Rick Fox paints landscapes almost entirely plein air. Teaching and residing on the southern coast of Maine, he is surrounded by natural beauty; he visits the same spot over and over again, never tiring of the view. The light, time of day, and season create vastly different paintings from one to the other.
Each painting has a vivacity of application and color, even though the largest is 30x40.” They are gutsy, surprising, and sometimes chaotic. His paint, applied mostly using a palette knife, is laid down in thick, confident strokes with one streak bumping up against another and sometimes merging. Occasionally, small areas of the surface of a painting will appear to have been scraped away to reveal a wash of color instead of Fox’s characteristic pile of paint. It’s in these small moments that the viewer may wonder, if Fox is after more than just beauty—it's a thoroughly considered labor.
Fox, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art (MFA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BFA), studied with George Nick, a longtime realist painter and mentor to many painters in New England.