Richard Wood (b.1950) A country landscape with thatched cottages beside hayfields, signed lower right, oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm, with a further country landscape showing Fresian cattle grazing beside a river, with a thatched cottage behind, by the same hand, together with a riverside landscape at dusk, with church spire in the distance, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, by the same hand (total 3)

Provenance: Ex Collection of a Northern Art Gallery

Richard Wood was born in London in 1950. After leaving school he worked in the Design Department at a Wood Mill before moving to Cornwall to work and study under artist John Miller (1931-2002) in 1974. He has always been drawn to the natural landscape and moved to Lancashire to explore this further, painting the rural scenery in Lancashire, The Lake District and Yorkshire