(B. 1951, Scotland)Born 19th November 1951 in Dunoon, Scotland, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art 1970-1974 and he graduated with BA Hons 1974. He taught Art for 28 years (18 years as Head of Department, the last 11 years of which in Sha Tin College, Hong Kong).Ronnie Ford's signature style of sculptural painting inspired by the countryside around his second home in France and influenced by his studies of eastern and western Art invites the viewer on a journey through the landscape. He has had several sell-out exhibitions and has sold his work to clients (public, private and corporate) world wide.
"I study the landscape, then distance myself from it physically and with time, in order to filter out unnecessary detail and capture the spirit of what I have seen on my canvases.”
Ford's work features a highly textured surface and use of contrasting colours which captures the French and Scottish landscape in a personal and evocative way, pulling at the heart strings and stimulating the brain. He focuses on capturing the spirit of the landscape which was the goal of the Chinese masters who believed that "anyone can copy a person or a landscape but only true masters catch its spirit!" His 2003 Hong Kong exhibition was the central feature of the number one Canto Pop star Sammie Cheng's MTV video. His most recent Hong King show inspired a collector to increase her Ford paintings to a total of 30. In a Power Charity Auction his work sold for five times the asking price and was the third most expensive work sold.