Ron Freeman was born in 1951 in Chatham, Kent. He has moved around since then. His home and studio are now in Tenterden, Kent. He has been painting, drawing and making sculpture all his life.
At the age of 39 he decided to become more serious about his passion and did courses in Painting and Sculpture. From 1996 – 2001 he gained a BA degree in Fine Art and from 2001 – 2003 an MA in Fine Art at Canterbury University. From 2005 – 2013 he taught Painting and Drawing and Life Drawing at Adult Education at various establishments. Since then, although occasionally teaching privately, he has been concentrating on his own work – Painting and Sculpture.
Painting: This exhibition shows his oil paintings on board or canvas. He is interested in what paint can do and how colours interact. He paints for himself and what he feels. Sometimes he uses subjects from reality as a starting point, particularly landscape. He prefers to explore and invent rather than copy.
Sculpture: The wood carvings on show are more illustrative of certain ideas that come to him. He says, “With carving it’s best to have a destination in mind before commencing the journey, otherwise you could end up with a pile of woodchips.”
Poetry: Ron writes poetry every day. He says, “I think life is one long poem, and we live on the edge of it’s recital.”
The poems accompany the physical work, not to explain it in any way, but just to compliment.
Ron says, “The mental strategies used to create painting, sculpture and poetry are remarkably similar.”
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