Greg Ramsden
Ramsden's paintings combine the monumentality of the natural world with a nostalgia you might associate with faded postcards and distant memories. By working with subtle tonal shifts and sometimes a near complete absence of colour Ramsden achieves scintillating light effects as well as varied and rich brushmarks.
Ramsden is not only an awarding winning oil painter but a multi-award winning film producer. This past year has seen him win awards for his paintings and for his films.
His work has centred on Salcombe for the past 12 years. In that time his unique and exciting paintings have captured the life and light of Salcombe.
Ramsden works in many mediums and techniques, ranging from monochrome acrylics to experimental oil paintings. The techniques he applies are in order to explore ways of communicating his way of thinking.
Ramsden’s work was been hung in the Royal West Academy on multiple occasions.
His paintings have been hung for the last 6 years at Royal Society of Marine Artists. Last year his work won the Winsor & Newton Oil Award in 2022 at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London.
This year Ramsden was awarded Associate Member status of Royal Society of Marine Artists.
He achieved his degree in Painting & Printmaking from Sheffield University under the tuition of the realist painter George Shaw, a Turner prize finalist in 2011.
Ramsden first worked as an artists assistant to the international sculptor Heather Jansch. His painting career was jump started by winning the Lionel Aggett Award at the South West Academy of Art in 2009.
Biography of Exhibitions
2022:
Winsor & Newton Oils Award, The Royal Society of Marine Artist
First US show, The 1780 House, Concord Massachusetts USA.
Sea of Art Film Festival, Best Short Film
Emerald Peacock Film Festival
8 & half Film festival, Best Documentary Short
Art Film Awards, Honourable Mention
2021:
Royal Society of Marine Artist Mall Galleries, London.
Academician at the South West Academy of Fine Art
2020:
Royal Society of Marine Artist Mall Galleries, London
Tonic Gallery Salcombe Solo Show
2019:
Royal Society of Marine Artist Mall Galleries, London
D’art Gallery Dartmouth
Brownston Gallery
Thelma Herbert Gallery
South West Academy of Fine Art
2018:
Royal Society of Marine Artist Mall Galleries, London
London’s Battersea Affordable Art Fairs
D’art Gallery Dartmouth
Brownston Gallery
Thelma Herbert Gallery
South West Academy of Fine Arts, Academicians show Delamore Arts
2017:
Royal Society of Marine Artist Mall Galleries, London
Royal West of England Academy 165th Open Exhibition
Penwith Gallery Show, St Ives
London’s Battersea Affordable Art fairs
Bristol Affordable Art fair
South West Academy of Fine Arts, Academicians show Delamore Arts
Thelma Herbert Gallery, Honiton Academicians Winter Show
2016:
The Bristol Affordable art fair
The South West Academy of art 15th Open Exhibition
The Battersea Affordable Art Fair
Delamore Arts (SWAc Academicians Exhibition)
Thelma Herbert Gallery Honiton SWAc Academicians Show
2015:
The Royal West Academy 163rd Annual Open Exhibition
Wilton House, Collection of Lord Pembroke
The South West Academy of Art Open Exhibition
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum, SWA Academicians Show
The Bristol Affordable Art Fair
Short listed for the Royal Academy Summer Show
Elected to the Board of Trustee’s for the South West Academy of Art
WhiteSpace Gallery Totnes “Light and Landscape” Spring Exhibition
WhiteSpace Gallery Totnes “Little Gems” Winter Exhibition2011:
Became a Academician at the South West Academy of Arts
Won the Lionel Aggett Award at the SWA Open Exhibition