BIOGRAPHY

Born in Canada in 1959, Ron Kingswood's love of both nature and painting traces back to frequent hunting trips he took with his father. At the age of nine, Kingswood began painting with watercolours, depicting the animals he observed on these trips in the detailed, illustrative style that characterized traditional wildlife painting in North America.   This style saw him through high school, his formal art education, and his earliest commercial successes.  In the mid-1980's his practice underwent a radical change - he moved from working in acrylic to oil, and from representational realism to distinctly impressionistic approach, adopting a new concern with large format canvases. 

"The more you explore, the more the layers appear," says Kingswood discussing his new Battled of Southwold series - a body of paintings which describe the current environmental changes occurring in the forest areas in his nearby township of Southwold, Canada.  Kingswood  has known and painted this region his entire life.

The line and subtly modulated colours in these paintings are the artist's interpretation of the entangled structure of brushwood in the winter and the spectacle of light reflecting off of the snow.  The alternating layers of oil, pencil and lithographic crayon beckon the imagination and inspire in one's mind a field of dreams,  Kingswood cites his enjoyment of the natural world as the source of exploring these meditative which surfaces. 

Ron Kingswood currently lives and works in Ontario, Canada.