Richmond Burton

Richmond Burton was born in 1960 in Alabama, and studied architecture at Rice University, Houston, Texas. An abstract painter and printmaker, Richmond Burton lives and works in East Hampton, New York. With a background in architecture, many of Burton’s paintings stress visual order.

Richmond Burton’s colorful and harmonious paintings and graphic work are composites of his vocabulary of organic shapes that flow together in undulating patterns resulting in unique multi-colored abstractions…

Selected works and biography

Untitled (Concentric Steps’ Study)

Richmond Burton, an abstract painter and printmaker, earned his BA in Architecture from Rice University. Richmond Burton lives and works in East Hampton. Richmond Burton’s colorful and harmonious paintings and graphic work are composites of his vocabulary of organic shapes that flow together in undulating patterns resulting in unique multi-colored abstractions.