l studied Fine Art Painting at Brighton College of Art in the eighties and have painted professionally ever since. Seascape and landscape have been my main preoccupation.

 

"Watercolour was my first passion. Given a box of artist's colours at the age of thirteen by my father, the sculptor Sean Rice, I entered into a world of entrancing depth and beauty. The purity of the colours was hypnotic. I was hooked. My other passion after that was for oil painting, its power, richness and texture, and more recently acrylic too.

 

"My paintings have been featured in BBC Countryfile, the Independent newspaper, Échappées Belles for French TV, "The Artist"(magazine), and two very well illustrated books: Cecil Rice: Venice, Sunlight and Water, and The Colour of Light. (2006 and 2013 Hallsgrove). ​I’ve exhibited regularly at art galleries in the UK and my work is widely collected.  I exhibit my original paintings during May each year, as part of Brighton Artists' Open Houses

 

 From the mid-nineties onwards my originals have been exhibited at solo and mixed exhibitions in London, Battersea Art fair, the Royal Academy (Work on paper), Gallery 27, Cork Street W1 (solo), WH Patterson Gallery W1 "Venice in peril", Red Dot Gallery Wandsworth, and Norfolk, and various city art galleries in the UK, including Bell Fine Art, Winchester, Elford Fine Art Tavistock, Blackheath Gallery London and Clairmonte galleries, Brighton. 

 

By 1998 I was also creating limited editions of silkscreen prints, several of Venetian and Italian subjects and many of these editions rapidly sold out to collectors. These prints compliment my originals

 

​For the last decade I have exhibited my latest paintings, large and small in Brighton, during Brighton Festival each May and also led regular painting classes and workshops in the South of England as well as painting courses in Venice. I love sharing my enthusiasm for painting with other artists and am happy to demonstrate too. I lead a weekly Zoom art class in which I demonstrate for most of the session.