MA Fine Art

Richard Kenton Webb is an award-winning artist and educator with over 40 years’ experience teaching in some of the top art schools in the UK, including at The Slade School of Fine Art, London and The Royal Drawing School, London. He has taken part in many residencies overseas like The British School at Rome; Cité International des Arts, Paris; SACI International, Florence; LARQ, Australia; Tao Hua Tan, China; and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, USA. Richard joined Arts University Plymouth in November 2020 as Subject Leader for our BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing and Printmaking course, and in September 2025 was appointed as a Visiting Professor in Painting. He has a deep connection with the physicality of paint and, as a result, makes his own paints using pigments from the earth. For him, colour is a tangible material – physical paint – that transforms painting into an immersive, sensory experience. Since 1996, his practice and teaching have been an exploration of colour as a language. From 2000 to 2005, he created 22 diptychs representing A Colour Grammar, followed by 22 sculptures titled Colour Forms. From 2007 onwards, he explored Red and Orange; the A Warm / Cold Contrast; then Yellow in Tasmania: followed by A Light / Dark Contrast, a 10-year conversation with Milton’s Paradise Lost, completed in 2021. In 2016, Richard was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize and was awarded the London Sunny Art Prize in 2020. Richard is currently exploring the historic destruction of the visual arts by English iconoclasts. This has resulted in a conversation with Shakespeare and research into the foundation of English creativity, going back to early English poets, mystics, contemplatives and theatre. In 2026, Richard will be spending a month at Whitworth University in Washington State USA as Visiting Professor, showing his work and teaching on the practice of colour. Richard’s work is held in collections in the UK, Europe, China, Mauritius, Japan, Australia, USA and Canada. He is represented by Benjamin Rhodes Arts London where he has had six solo shows since 1987.

William is an artist whose practice explores drawing in an expanded sense through works on paper, print, ceramics and video. William studied a Masters in Drawing at Arts University Plymouth and graduated in 2022 with a Distinction, where his research interests were focused on drawing, performativity and the point where art meets life and what this means for his work. He is one third of art collective Nous Vous and has exhibited in solo and group shows across the UK and internationally. Studio Luz, William’s commercial and commission based studio has produced murals, installations, prints and images for clients including The Barbican, Aesop, The Hepworth Museum, Ace & Tate, Nike and Facebook.

Sarah King is a practicing artist, educator and researcher. She employs a range of artistic research methods and material processes in her practice including digital recording and projection; object gathering and making; stitching; drawing; and embodied actions. Her work and research are focussed around notions of memory; exploring the uncanny, and the abject in relation to objects, materiality, memory, and trace. Recent soft sculptural works and sound drawings are deeply concerned with the passing of time, forgetfulness, the absent subject and mending the impossible in an attempt to confront and reconcile the strangeness of loss. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has work held in private collections in the UK and US. Sarah is Subject Leader for the Fine Art degree programme at Arts University Plymouth, she teaches across all years and leads level 6 studio, professional practice and contextual modules. Sarah is passionate about the dialogue of practice and the richness of sharing, debating and questioning to bring dynamic and live making and thinking to the studio. She is currently External Examiner for University of Gloucestershire.