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 and was married for twenty-nine years. For more than four decades, I have lived entirely through the sale of my art. My highest sale to date is $53,000,

.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

In addition to original paintings I create drawings and relief prints.

I publish a new essay every morning at Richard Beerhorst Substack