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My work is a funky, surreal aggregated information overload. Amidst the myriad of details, odd moments and confronting images are subtle elements of mystery, basic values and hope. It’s a decorated mess. I attempt to draw the viewer into a world of Globalization and chaos, then I spike them with a cold reality.

I have recently developed a style of painting that is full of mass subject matter but appears quite ambient from afar. The chequered two dimensional appearance allows me to manipulate the meaning of the picture up close while maintaining a wallpaper quality that isn’t to overbearing.

Influenced by 'Fantastic Art' and steeped in the philosophy of Hieronymus Bosch, whose works 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' or the macabre devils, freaks and monsters form the essence of Richard Batty's 'Urban Architecture' the result of a lengthy research project on Social Geography, exploring the relationship between architecture, space, drugs and sex.

Batty's chaotic, Boschian, compositions are produced in a range of different styles, offering multiple potentialities. Likened to “Where’s Wally” illustrations, many of his paintings are packed like jam jars with imagery, though Wally himself never makes an appearance. Influences are hugely diverse, ranging from an interest in the texturality of Rauschenberg’s Combines and Max Ernst’s Frottage to a passion for figurative work and naïve brush technique reminiscent of Munch’s Expressionism.

Life Is A Short Eternity

2009
Oil on canvas
68x54cm

Electro Funk Lovers

2009
Oil on linen

Lord, this is not the end, its just the beginning

2009
Oil on linen
192x104cm