title: Monumental 2025
artist: Rick Grimster (Muscogee (Creek))
medium: giclée print, archival inks on archival paper.
signed limited edition of 25
dimensions: 41.5cm x 36cm (paper size), 30.5cm x 25.5cm (image size)
Monumental 2025
This limited edition print was created in spring of 2025 from a high resolution scan of an original painting by Rick Grimster. The originalpainting is in a private collection in the USA.
Rick Grimster
Grimster’s life story is as captivating as his paintings that elevate the English landscape with an instinctive and unbridled joy of colour and a love of nature aligned with his Native American heritage.
Richard Geoffrey Grimster is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. He was born in 1945 and adopted by an English couple. His birth father, Freeman Marshall (1909-2000), was a Native American GI based in England during World War II.
Grimster graduated from Cheltenham School of Art in the 1960s, and gained an MFA from Birmingham Polytechnic. An intensely private man, he has continued to make art throughout his life without any intention of exhibiting his work, until this year.
In March 2023 Grimster’s art was seen by the world for the very first time. His spring 2023 exhibition ‘Belonging’ and his second exhibition ‘Winter Trees’ both sold out. His early abstract works from the 1970s are now earmarked for a solo show at a museum in the USA.
