Canoeists and archers 2009 110 x 80cm oil on canvas £6500
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The Severn Bore Approaching Over 32 x 30cm oil on panel £695
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Ron Boyd was born near Newport, Fife, Scotland and studied at Perth Academy, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, under Alberto Morocco and David McClure, gaining his Diploma in Art and Design. He was awarded a Post–Diploma year of study in order to pursue his painting and then gained a three-year scholarship at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, where he gained his Masters Degree in Fine Art (Drawing and Painting), under Ruskin Spear, Carel Weight and Sir Roger de Grey.
Ron won First Prize in the prestigious "Spirit of London" painting competition for his oil painting, entitled "Putney Bridge". Ron's paintings and drawing are exhibited widely in Britain and abroad. His work has in the past been selected for the John Moore’s exhibition of contemporary painting at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and also for the Royal Academy summer exhibition.
A landscape drawing over the River Wye was selected for the influential British Drawing exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, on London's South Bank. Ron is also the recipient of the "Victor Moody Award" for drawing. This award was given for a pencil and paper study of a Forest of Dean quarry.
Ron Boyd has been exhibiting his work since the late 1960’s in galleries in London, elsewhere in Britain and abroad. He lives and works in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire.
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