From a Place of Unknowing

Colin Riches sees art as a way of articulating non-verbal experience and the process of making is, in his words, ‘a search for identity and healing’. His work plays with the multiplicity of cultural meanings embedded in different symbols and forms, all the while exploring and discovering profound personal meanings.
From "Where I am is Here" by Tanya Goodwin

The sculptures of Colin Riches are each a crossroads where the paths of many histories and stories meet and converse. There are stories of the sea written in the objects found discarded on Island beaches which have been selected, ‘redeemed’ and given a new significance as part of a sculptural form. 
From "Where I am is Here" by Tanya Goodwin

Over the years his thematic preoccupations and obsessions; brutality and containment, sex and the sacred, identity, fertility and faith, have remained, although the visual vocabulary through which these subjects are explored is continually changing, informed both by technical innovations and new discoveries.
From "Where I am is Here" by Tanya Goodwin