Arnold Berleant wrote in 2004
‘perceiving the environment from within, looking not at it but in it, nature becomes something quite different. It is transformed into a realm where we live as participants not observers’
Ron is a contemporary visual artist who combines conceptual and traditional approaches in his art practice.
Often working at the boundary of abstraction and figuration, he creates a detachment from the material world, giving the viewer freedom to respond emotionally to his ambiguous narrative spaces. He allows meaning to unfold through immersive research, intuitive use of materials, and social engagement.
His work weaves together threads of concern for the fragile uncertainty of life, the importance of place and the nature of time.
Work that is more than the simple pleasure of looking.
Ron is a member of The Oxford Art Society, an associate member of the Penwith Society of Arts, a member of the xvi group of artists, and a graduate of the Falmouth School of Art (MA Fine Art).
Exhibitions
| Oxford Art Society | Cloisters Gallery, Oxford | 2021 |
| RSMA | Mall Galleries, London | 2020 |
| xvi Artists | PZ Gallery, Penzance | 2019 |
| Sol Force | Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens | 2019 |
| NSA | Chapel House, Penzance | 2019 |
| Open Studios | Islington Wharf, Penryn | 2018 |
| Lizard Art | Trelowarren, Helston | 2018 |
| Fake | CMR project space | 2017 |
| An Lyzard | Xtrospective Gallery, Penryn | 2017 |
| Bodmin Moor | Xtrospective Gallery, Penryn | 2017 |
| Lizard Art | Trelowarren, Helston | 2017 |
| Inland Festival | CMR project space, Redruth | 2016 |
| Art Decade | The Old Bakery, Truro | 2016 |
| Dialogue | Spring Gallery, Poly Falmouth | 2015 |
| Mining the landscape | Maritime House Gallery, Falmouth | 2015 |
| Bodmin | Tinca Gallery, Portishead | 2015 |
| Interplay | CMR project space, Redruth | 2014 |
| Four Directions | CMR project space, Redruth | 2014 |
| Freedom from Torture | Millenium Gallery, St Ives | 2013 |
| Annual Exhibition | Royal West Of England | 2013 |
| The art of writing | CMR project space, Redruth | 2013 |
| Limbo | Bucca Gallery, Newlyn | 2013 |
| Cornish Landscape | The Jam Factory, Oxford | 2012 |
| MA final show | Falmouth University | 2012 |
| Welsh Landscapes | Covered Arts Gallery, Oxford | 2011 |
| Textures | D’Art Gallery, Dartmouth | 2010 |
| Blockley Group | Orange Street Gallery, Rutland | 2008 |
| Open | Royal West of England Academy (RWA) | 2004/6/7/13 |
| Open | Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) | 2004/6/8/10/11 |
| Open | Royal Institute of Painters in watercolour (RI) | 2004/5/6/7/8/ 2009/10/11/13 |