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John Ronayne ARCA
Based in United Kingdom
At a very early age, my father took me along to the National Gallery, where I became excited by the handling of landscape and light effects by masters such as Claude, Ruisdael and Turner. At school, the Art Room was my sanctuary; I was in there whenever possible.
After schooldays, my undergraduate course was at Norwich School of Art. I was inspired by the big skies of Norfolk, and also the School's position, overlooking the river Wensum with its misty, almost Dutch, atmosphere.
From there I won a 3-year postgraduate place at the Royal College of Art, based, most fortunately, next door to the V&A: inspiration was close at hand in the collection of theatre design models with their painted illusions of Nature, and the galleries particularly featuring Constable oil sketches.
On graduation I founded my own specialist company in museum exhibition design, where spatial effect and the manipulation of light are vital elements, as well as the ability to visualise a scene pictorially for clients.
Throughout that successful career I was continuing to paint both for pleasure, and occasionally for reward!
Now I have decided to wind down the business, convert the office into a studio, and make myself free to concentrate on my first love.
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Waving Grass Field
Oil - 11.8"x15.7"£100.00 -
Grass Leaning
Oil - 15.7"x19.7"£200.00 -
Suggestion of a Heart
Oil - 12.2"x9.1"£50.00 -
South Devon Riverside
Oil - 11.8"x15.7"£75.00 -
Flying to the Light
Oil - 27.6"x19.7"£125.00 -
Bluebells, Oxleas Wood
Oil - 15.7"x11.8"£95.00 -
Beside the Red Road
Oil - 15.7"x19.7"SOLD -
Cloud in Pink
Oil - 12"x16"£150.00 -
Dawn Heath Path
Oil - 10"x11.8"£125.00 -
Westminster Sky
Oil - 11.8"x15.7"SOLD -
Richmond Hill
Oil - 23.6"x19.7"£175.00 -
The Wayfarer
Oil - 15.7"x11.8"£350.00 -
Occluded Sky
Oil - 16.9"x13"£300.00 -
Glen
Oil - 14.4"x18.5"SOLD -
Greenland Glacier
Oil - 11.8"x9.8"£250.00 -
Chaotic sky
Oil - 23.6"x19.7"£450.00 -
Distant City
Oil - 9.4"x7.1"£150.00 -
Fair Weather
Oil - 18.7"x14.6"£395.00 -
Dawn in the Hills
Oil - 19.7"x23.6"£475.00