Romer Kitching (b. 1995) is an English oil painter living in Céret, France.

He received a formal training at the Florence Academy of Art (2015-2018). There, he learned to work from life in natural light, a practice he continues today. During these years, still life, nudes and portraits were the focus, laying a solid academic foundation.

After finishing his training, Romer moved to Céret, a town in the south of France with a rich artistic history. A place he had known since childhood, the town became his home and the center of his artistic universe. Here he learned to paint outdoors, immersing himself in nature and in the streets. This added a new dimension to his work, which had previously been studio-based.

He has inherited a visual culture that largely draws on renaissance art he saw in Italy and impressionist paintings he saw in France.

Romer’s work, whilst clearly informed by a love of traditional european oil painting, strives to engage honestly with the modern world and his own life as a contemporary person. His practice is varied, with some paintings being autobiographical, others strictly observational and some of a more imaginative/philosophical nature.

Whilst Romer has exhibited and sold his work internationally, most of his exhibitions take place in the Pyrenees Orientales in the South of France, a region which he has painted extensively and in which he has a growing reputation, particularly for his street scenes and landscapes.

Commissions are always welcome, but please be aware that he works only from life.