He has been delivering couriers for 30 years, and has gone from being looked down upon by others to

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-02-01

There is no distinction between high and low occupations, but there is a "decent and undignified" difference, many people regard the job of selling labor as an undignified job, and the work of sitting in the office as a decent job, in fact, the real decency is not the performance of the work, but the life that each of us wants.

Most people would consider the profession of an artist to be a very decent profession, while the courier is an undignified job. In real life, these two professions can be transformed into each other, artists will also choose to send couriers to make a living in order to maintain their lives, and a courier can also become a painter through continuous study in addition to work.

Richard Claremont, an abstract expressionist painter from Australia, is known as the "painting courier", in Richard Claremont's life, compared to painting, delivery is his main profession, in order to live he sent half a life of courier, and eventually became a professional painter. Born in 1965, Richard Claremont graduated from the Sydney College of Art with a degree in Painting, and in 1988 he returned to the Shelhaber area of Australia to work as a courier. Originally, delivering couriers was just a summer job for him, and as a transitional career, no one could have imagined that Richard Claremont would be delivered for nearly 30 years. During his break from delivering couriers, he made a lot of sketches, which laid the foundation for him to become a professional painter.

Most of Richard Claremont's paintings come from the landscapes he made on the way to the courier, combined with the many sketches he made, and he slowly used his memory and intuition to paint these landscape paintings. Vivid, free and romantic paintings are presented in front of people's eyes, these abstract landscape paintings are welcomed by many people, and his works are full of dynamism and vitality, as if telling a silent story. In addition to Abstract Expressionism, Richard Claremont experimented with different painting styles, but in the end he chose Expressionism as his artistic language. He believed that expressionism was able to better express one's inner world and emotional experience, and that the art form was also more free and open.

Richard Claremont's creative process is unique, he usually scribbles on canvas and then uses his brush to direct the flow of paint to allow the picture to take shape. This approach requires a great deal of control and flexibility, but Richard Claremont is able to handle it with ease, and his paintings are full of surprises and creativity. Richard Claremont is renowned not only in Australia but also internationally and his work is in the hands of museums and private collectors around the world. Who would have thought that this highly famous painter was a very senior courier.

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