BIOGRAPHY
Ronald F Smith was born in Glasgow in 1946. He graduated in Drawing and Painting from the highly respected Glasgow School of Art in 1969. His awards include the David Cargill Award and the John Cunningham Award. Ronald has exhibited widely across Scotland and in Cornwall, Oxfordshire, and London. He was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts in 1999 and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours in 2008. In 2006 Ronald was named one of the top Scottish artists to invest in by the Glasgow Herald.
Ronald's subject matters hold a familiarity - landscapes, sky scenes, and still lifes – yet he manages to create an intensely unfamiliar atmosphere with his paint. His painterly style forms a large part of the work's attraction, with his rough pastel scrapes of paint under which glimpses of sumptuous colour can be seen. Each of Ronald's works are beautiful to behold and must be seen in the flesh to absorb the warmth which radiates from them.
AWARDS:
1966 · John and Mabel Craig Bequest · GSA
1969 · Haldane Travelling Scholarship · GSA
1969 · Carnegie Travelling Scholarship · RSA (Royal Scottish Academy)
1997 · David Cargill Award · RGI (Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts ) Annual Exhibition
1999 · Elected artist member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
2001 · John Cunningham Award · RGI Annual Exhibition
2008 · Inverarity Vaults Travel Award · RGI Annual Exhibition
2008 · Elected artist member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW)
2009 · AB Framing Award ‧ PAI (Paisley Art Institute) Annual Exhibition)
2010 · House for an Art Lover Award ‧ PAI Annual Exhibition
2012 · The Rendezvous Gallery • Artist In Residence Award • RSW Annual Exhibition
2012 ‧ Diploma of the Paisley Art Institute (PAI)
2013 ‧ University of the West of Scotland Award (PAI Annual Exhibition)
2017 John Busy Aware RSW Annual Exhibition
2018 Joe Hargan Award - PAI Annual Exhibition
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Group Shows
1970 · Collins Gallery · Glasgow
1984 · Face to Face ‧ Lillie Art Gallery · Milngavie · Glasgow
· Contemporary Scottish Artists · Arthur Anderson & Co
1992 · Leone Cockburn Gallery · Hong Kong Exhibition
2000 · Royal Scottish Academy · Festival Exhibition
· The Green Gallery · Buchlyvie
2007 · Portland Gallery · London
2008 · Arteries Gallery · Glasgow
2010 · Manor House Gallery ‧ Chipping Norton
2011 · (Curator & Exhibitor) Picturing Places: Eight Viewpoints · House For An Art Lover • Glasgow
2018 Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh - 36th Annual Exhibition
Solo Exhibitions
1979 · Lillie Art Gallery · Milngavie
1993 · Festival Exhibition · Leone Cockburn Gallery · Edinburgh
2005 · 2010 Lemon Street Gallery · Truro· Cornwall
2007 · 2009 · Edgar Modern International Art·Bath
2010 · RGI Kelly Gallery · Glasgow
2010 · Inverarity Vaults · Glasgow
2012 · Billcliffe Gallery · Glasgow
2013 ‧ Lemon Street Gallery ‧Truro
2013 ‧ EdgarModern Intl Art ‧ Bath
Regular Exhibitor in
Ainscough Contemporary Art· Dartmouth
Arteries Gallery • Glasgow
Billcliffe Gallery · Glasgow
EdgarModern Intl Art·Bath
Green Gallery· Buchlyvie
Lemon Street Gallery · Truro · Cornwall
RGI · RSW and PAI Annual Exhibitions
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Art Fairs in the UK (through Galleries)
PUBLICATIONS:
The (Glasgow ) Herald ‧ December 2006 ‧ 50 artists to invest in
Whoʼs Who in Art ‧ 33rd Edition onwards
The Dictionary of Scottish Painters :1600 to the Present ‧ J Halsby & P Harris
BBC/Your Paintings Website ‧ Public Catalogue Foundation
COLLECTIONS:
Adam & Co
Cunard : Queen Mary 2 Liner (Commission)
Edinburgh Fund Managers
Glasgow Museums
Lanarkshire Education Authority
Leeds Education Authority
Royal Bank Of Scotland
Walter Scott & Partners • Edinburgh
Private Collections Internationally
