Ronald Ronaldson (1919-2015) - Contemporary Oil Snow Peaked Mountains

Description

Condition

The painting is in fine condition. Light wear to the frame.

Size

48 x 59cm (18.9" x 23.2")
Framed Size: 63 x 73cm (24.8" x 28.7")

Artist Biography

Ronald Ronaldson was a painter, born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Self-taught he began to paint in South Africa during his time in the Royal Navy during World War II. Ronaldson has been included in publications and exhibitions from Northumbria to East Anglia and is known for his paintings executed up and down the country, particularly along the East Coast. First with the Northern Artists, later in East Anglia, he has exhibited with Colin Moss at Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery and with Donald McIntyre, Audrey Blake and Richard Sorrell. Roland Suddaby, curator at Gainsborough House, 1970-72 invited Ronaldson to have a solo exhibition but typically hating any fuss, Ronald refused until some years later.

Ronaldson did show with the Northern Artists since the late 1940’s and also at the Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, 1950-91, Gainsborough House, Sudbury, 1988, and more recently has held two exhibitions at the Chappel Galleries, Essex, 1991, 1993 and 2008. Away from his adopted East Anglia, he has shown in the Laing competitions, 1993, 1997, 2004 and 2008 held at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. He was a member of the Suffolk Art Society and in his 91st year was invited to hold the opening exhibition at the Edmund Gallery within St. Edmundsbury Cathedral. He lived in Bury St. Edmunds, where he worked at the West Suffolk hospital, retiring after 34 years as chief medical laboratory scientific officer, having started there as a laboratory technician.