Welcome to my website. It shows some of my work in Watercolours, Acrylics, and also my ceramic sculptures that are created and fired using the ancient Japanese Raku method. Although this method originated in Japan it has been heavily modified by Western potters over the years and I have taken up this latter way of working with clay. It is exciting and unpredictable, qualities I enjoy.
I use Watercolours mainly for representational work although my selection and use of colour is very personal and does not conform to what you might observe. I do also use it, due to its extreme fluidity for some work which is more abstract. The origins of my abstract watercolours, and indeed acrylics, will almost always have been one of my representational landscapes or a figure study.
Acrylics I use mainly when I'm working on large canvases, and the subject matter is usually inclined to be more abstract, and once again it allows me to use colour very freely.
Quite a few pieces of work have been sold and appear here as illustrations of the range of my work. If you have any questions about anything, please feel free to send me an email at : [email protected] or use the contact form.
Thank you.
Russi.
 la Fraise. Watercolour 30 x 20 cm
SOLD
Russi Dordi was born in Bombay and moved to England in 1955.
He retired from teaching Art when he was offered early retirement, and set up his own studio to start painting and working in ceramics full time. He has exhibited extensively in the U.K. and has his work in several private collections & commercial galleries. He was a member of the East Kent Art Society (Canterbury) and the National Society (London). He won a Daler Rowney Prize at the Bankside Gallery, when he exhibited there at the Royal Watercolour Society's " Open Exhibition." The watercolour on the right, won "Best in Show" at the Westminster Gallery, at the NS annual exhibition. When his wife Barbara also took early retirement from teaching, they bought a house in the Aude region of France in 2001. Eventually we had a house built in the village of Cailhau. It was a wonderful village with a very European mix of residents amongst the French population. We both continued to work independently and individually and had a wonderful life in the fullest sense for all of twelve years in France. Having lived and enjoyed the many wonderful aspects of France, we decided to move back to the UK, and have settled in the lovely little Hampshire town of Emsworth. It is a town with a very active & large artists' community, and I hope to be able to join them. I haven't started any work yet, in 2021, due a lack of premises. Am currently looking for shared studio , or somewhere I can put up a new workshop, but have been unsuccessful so far. IN 2023 I have rented studio space in Havant and have started work which is shown here |
"Bovver Boy"
Pigeon in Raku
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