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Framed: 27 x 40.5 in | 68.58 x 102.87 cm
Giclée and Fine Art Print
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Hand-signed Flatbed Giclée on glass limited edition artwork by Richard Rowan.
Celebrating 20 years with Castle Fine Art and marking another significant chapter in Richard Rowan’s artistic journey, the Summer 2026 collection invites viewers into landscapes shaped as much by emotion as by place. While this collection reflects upon two decades of technical innovation and artistic growth, it is equally focused on the future. Rather than a culmination, the artworks represent a continuation of Rowan's lifelong exploration of landscape, light and atmosphere.
In ‘Sonder’, Rowan sought to create a delicate monochrome landscape scene full of depth and emotion. The recurring elements of earth, and sky create a visual language that has become synonymous with Rowan's work.
Working within a restrained palette required extraordinary control. Layers of whites, greys and soft tonal gradations were carefully built and blended to create a sense of space and movement. Drawing inspiration from the natural world while embracing artistic interpretation, the artwork blends a real location with imagined possibilities, resulting in a landscape that feels both familiar and timeless. The vast horizon in the solitary scene unfolds, creating a moment that feels suspended between memory and imagination.
"The work has come a long way. Clouds have been my biggest challenge — my nemesis, really — which is exactly why I keep pushing them. New Life Beckons and The Good in Goodbye really tested me this year."
There is a profound sense of stillness within these works, each artwork inviting us to pause and reconnect with the wonder of the natural world whilst experiencing the emotions that live within it. Yet beneath their tranquillity lies a quiet energy; a tension between light and darkness, clarity and obscurity, permanence and change. As Rowan himself describes it, "Stillness is a moment of perfection. A moment of clarity. A moment of calm in an ever more chaotic world."
Twenty years of artistic development have brought Rowan's reverse oil-on-glass technique to an extraordinary level of refinement. Working in carefully constructed layers, Rowan builds each painting from darkness towards light. Intricate foundations are gradually developed through successive applications of oil paint, with areas blended, refined and selectively revealed to create remarkable depth and luminosity. The unique properties of painting on glass allow colours and highlights to retain an exceptional radiance, producing surfaces that appear to glow from within.
This artwork is a hand-signed Flatbed Giclée on glass limited edition by Richard Rowan.
This artwork is also available in a set of three.
Find out more about Summer 2026 collection or shop more Rowan’s art here.
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Sale price¥145,800
A closer look
THE FINER DETAILS
Hand-signed by the artist
The artwork is hand-signed by Richard Rowan.
The Artist's Technique
The ground-breaking contemporary glass painter meticulously paints by hand in oils on the opposite side of the glass. Building layers in reverse, starting with the foreground and finer details before working in several layers to the background, is a technique Richard has trailblazed for over 15 years.
Flatbed Giclée on Glass
Given Castle Fine Art's expertise as the UK's leading art retailer, we are committed to the highest standards, especially regarding printing. Derived from the French term gicler’, the term describes a printing process whereby microscopic dots of pigment-based ink are sprayed onto archival-quality paper to ensure the fidelity of a limited edition to an original artwork. It is believed that a giclée will significantly outlast a lithographic print, keeping its vivid colour for up to 200 years.
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Summer 2026
Celebrating 20 years with Castle Fine Art and marking another significant chapter in Richard Rowan’s artistic journey, the Summer 2026 collection invites viewers into landscapes shaped as much by emotion as by place. Vast horizons, luminous skies and solitary scenes unfold across the series, creating moments of quiet contemplation that feel suspended between memory and imagination.
Drawing inspiration from the natural world while embracing artistic interpretation, the recurring elements of earth, water and sky create a visual language that has become synonymous with Rowan's work. With towering cloud formations, reflective waters and expansive skies, there is a profound sense of stillness within these works. Yet beneath their tranquillity lies a quiet energy; a tension between light and darkness, clarity and obscurity, permanence and change.
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The artist
Richard Rowan
From the Icelandic wilderness to the fiery horizons of Thailand and towering mountains of Norway to spectacular Scotland, his atmospheric scenes allow viewers to escape from everyday life, creating a sense of intrigue in any living space. Richard is the only artist to be creating art in this style, and his incredible landscapes are so detailed that they are often mistaken for photographs, when in fact each one has been meticulously painted by hand using his reverse painting technique.
As the only fine artist successfully creating artworks in this style, Richard has become a part of the history of the glass art form, which dates back to Roman times and can also be seen in the Gothic period. Unlike canvas, glass interacts with the light, bringing his works to sparkling life.
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