Richard Hoedl is a Professional West Coast artist, who creates original hand-painted oil paintings inspired by the Canadian landscape and nudes that are inspired by... well... naked people mostly! And the desire to capture that sense of beauty within his art.

Richard Hoedl is both academically trained and self-taught through years of personal creativity and development. He has been gallery represented from coast to coast and has held solo and group exhibitions across Canada for the last 20 years. His works, highly prized by collectors, are held in personal and corporate collections around the world.

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This series of impressionistic landscape paintings are inspired by the Group of Seven and Emily Carr. Utilizing the old Renaissance art master's technique, the canvas is first painted with a warm orange ground (foundation). This brings soothing warmth to the entire completed painting. The images are filled with the feeling of movement and activity, yet are calm and dream-like to view. These works of art will be relaxing and enjoyable for years to come.

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Richard Hoedl was born, raised, and educated in Northern Alberta. He was drawn to BC by its beauty in 1991. It has been vitally important for Richard to have a constant connection to other artists to enhance and augment his own continuous artistic exploration. Through connecting with artists of all walks of life he has gained invaluable knowledge on a wide variety of art media, styles and techniques, including pastels, charcoal, acrylic, watercolour and oil paints, bronze casting, plaster, clay, wrought iron, graphic design, photography, video, silkscreening, printmaking and even returning to the simplicity of the pencil. The subject as well as the materials in which it was created inspires each piece of Richard's art.

The importance of learning about art has translated into teaching art. Richard has spent considerable time instructing both art and the business of art and/or acting as mentor to numerous artists at all levels of expertise, from beginners to seasoned professionals. He is currently in the process of creating an art school specifically centered around the fundamentals of building and art career that can actually provide a living for the artists. Something that has been lacking in Art Education for many years.

He continues to paint and sell his work commercially across Canada, the United States and around the world from his studio in Nanaimo, BC, Canada.

His work is in private and institutional collections across Canada, USA and Europe and continues to grow in popularity year after year.