Biography
Emeritus Professor of Art Education at McGill University, Ceramic Artist, Painter and Printmaker, Richard Lynn Studham joined McGill University in 1969 with the Department of Art Education. Principle responsibilities were the teaching of Ceramics, Drawing, Painting and Foundation Courses. He Chaired the Department of Education in the Arts from 1983 to 1990. Administrative responsibilities included Undergraduate and Graduate Program Director along with numerous academic committees within the university community. He retired in 2005 and received the honorific award of Emeritus Professor in 2009 in recognition of devoted and meritorious service.
As a professional artist, Richard Lynn Studham contributed to the local, national and international art scene since 1962. He has exhibited world wide with many works in public and private collections in Asia, Australia, Europe, Scandinavia, North, South, and Central America. He has received numerous national and international awards in recognition for his work. He continues to maintain this high profile by constantly accepting the challenge of re-inventing his work and submitting it to the appropriate exposure.
“Studham is too young to be part of Yeat’s Celtic Twilight, and too mature to have a great affinity with popular Celtic revival. This body of work is unique to his biography and intent. Studham’s achievement is a rare and powerful blend of asceticism and barbarity at the spiritual frontier.
As every wayfarer knows, crosses signal intersection. Studham’s ‘Pantheon of Celtic Saints’ carries us to a station where issues of history, fate and flesh collide.”
— Glenn Allison, Director 2001
