ROY RIDSDALE  RCA
 ARTIST & ILLUSTRATOR

 
 
 

Boreham Wood, Wiltshire - click for larger image  Dawn at Chatworth Park, Derbyshire       

 
 

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Roy Ridsdale

 

 
 
 

Biography
Graduated Royal College of Art 1969

After lecturing thirty years full time at the Lincoln College of Art, teaching drawing and painting, Roy re-established himself as a painter / Illustrator.

He exhibits continually.
recent exhibitions:
Porter Brook Gallery Sheffield
Derwent Wye Gallery, Derbyshire
Pollyanna's, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Shaw House, Wiltshire
Great Sheffield Art Show
Tolcarne Gallery, Newlyn

Publications
Currently collaborating with his psychologist wife on the production of a series of children’s books aimed at 2-3 year olds   

Figure painting and drawing workshops
Roy continues to teach drawing and painting from the figure to semi professionals, A level and art students, and those wishing to embark upon a career in art and design. He runs training days for those wishing to improve their abilities at teaching drawing and painting and is currently working with the Lincolnshire Schools Improvement Service to provide support for those students who are gifted and talented within areas of art and design..

Practical demonstration is central to Roy’s approach to teaching. The cognitive processes of listening, watching and reading continually feature throughout. Learning takes place within a structured series of practical workshops through exercises which cover all the fundamental requirements of drawing from a subject, including proportion and measuring, light and shade, wet and dry media and colour painting. 

Paintings
Drawing is the basis of all Roy’s work. As a descriptive process he uses drawing to depict the natural phenomena in the visual world. Visual tricks caused by light, local and reflected colour and extreme viewpoints are Roy's interests. Elements within a  composition are examined and used as abstract statements.

The function of colour relationships are emphasised along with visual texture and mark making.

Drawing the figure is a vehicle upon which Roy develops his observational and drawing skill with a variety of media. This consistent activity relates directly to all the visual processes applied to making pictures.

Subjects are likely to be ‘difficult’ but have potential to make an ‘exciting’ picture. These range from landscapes, objects, clichés and the figure.

Still Life
Roy is currently engaged in s series of fruit paintings.
It is possible for a skillful painter to make an ordinary object appear extraordinary.
‘I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle ' Frederick Franck
, “The Zen of Seeing

 

 
 

email: roy@royridsdale.com

 


Roy Ridsdale official site last modified: August 25, 2011