Born and raised in Massachusetts, Rick Fleury has dedicated his professional life to painting coastal landscapes of New England. His approach to landscape and mastery of oil led the Cape Cod Museum of Art to honor him with a solo show in 2006. The Executive Committee of the Copley Society of Art, the oldest non-profit art association in the United States, was so impressed with his work, they sought him out in his Cape Cod studio and invited him to become a member.

Rick’s work has also been juried to show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the Cotuit Center for the Arts. It can be found in private collections throughout the United States as well as in the permanent collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

Rick lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with his collie, Graham, and teaches at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Artist’s Statement:
I'm striving to portray the spiritual experience of the landscape. The landscape in its purest form, as it is, and as it was. While I continue to simplify my approach and what I choose to capture on canvas, I am also reaching for more complex challenges in terms of scale, composition and emotion.

My aim in painting has always been to capture the most exact interpretation of a moment in time, so that that moment may be revisited over and over again. I am drawn to the essence of a moment's beauty: the rare light as it moves across a meadow, the shadows or reflections it leaves behind; the subtle variations of color as they change with the seasons and time of day; the movement of grasses, water and sand; the solitude of a wandering low tide or a sun setting for what seems to be a last time.