Painter-Pilgrim in Search of What Is Essential

Paintings, letters, and invitations for those drawn to live more deliberately

I am a Paris-based American painter and writer with a forty-year practice shaped by devotion to making, long seasons of solitude, and paying attention to what matters.

I am the father of six children who are now grown and beginning families of their own.

.In November 2019, I left Michigan and began a European pilgrimage. Since then, I have made homes in:

• the wilderness of Tuscany, where I restored an abandoned stone house

• the island of Mallorca, where I lived with a Kurdish yogi and deepened my meditation practice

• Paris, where I have now lived a total of four years and continue to root myself in the daily life of a working artist

For more than four decades, I have lived entirely through the sale of my art. I see this as an essential aspect of my painting practice. I have continued to reconsider how I can better serve the people that come to support my work. I think of it as a dynamic on going relationship.

I use all my social media platforms, Meta, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, and TikTok to tell one cohesive story of my creative evolution. I do this in order to serve you, my audience.

In addition to these five platforms I publish a new essay every morning at Richard Beerhorst Substack. As of today, July 3rd, 2026 I have written 175 essays since I began my account on November 28th of 2025.