Ron Sandford b. 1937
From his studio on Yell, Shetland, Sandford draws the everyday, every day: still life, landscape and portrait in pencil, pen, ink and watercolour. Not ordinary, but charged with attitude. From 1956-60 he attended Glasgow School of Art in the etching and engraving department, then studying in the Graphics department at the Royal College of Art where he became friends with artist Edward Bawden. Through the 60s and 70s he taught part time at the Central School of Art and Design, the Royal College of Art, St. Martin’s School of Art and Brighton School of Art. Sandford spent time in Hong Kong, completing architectural drawings alongside his artwork, and for 30 years he illustrated books and newspapers and undertook large scale architectural commissions such as Bishopsgate, London.
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Ron SandfordAbandoned Junk Yard, Little Hong Kongstamped with artist's sealmixed media on paper40 x 35 ½ inches -
Ron SandfordFishplate & Filletsstamped with artist's sealoil and pencil on canvasboard16 x 12 inches£ 1,200.00
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Ron SandfordFragrant Windowstamped with artist's sealpen, oil and watercolour on paper45 ¾ x 32 ½ inches
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Ron SandfordPanmen Ancient Gatestamped with artist's sealpen, oil and watercolour on paper22 ¾ x 30 ¾ inches£ 3,200.00
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Ron SandfordQuick Thawstamped with artist's sealpen, ink and watercolour on paper19 ½ x 27 ¼ inches£ 2,500.00
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Ron SandfordSt. Olaf Cullivoe or 'To Work is to Pray'stamped with artist's sealmixed media on canvas31 ½ x 39 ¼ inches
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Ron SandfordStreptocarpus Ingo Istamped with artist's sealpen, ink and watercolour on paper28 ¼ x 19 ¾ inches£ 2,500.00
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Ron SandfordWindfallstamped with artist's sealpen, ink and watercolour on paper21 ¼ x 21 ½ inches£ 2,200.00
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Ron Sandford
The Everyday, Every Day 10 Nov - 22 Dec 2023Personal vignettes from a life in Hong Kong, Shetland, and travels in Italy. Ron Sandford’s paintings communicate his lived experience of these culturally and geographically distinct environments through commonplace items,...Read more -
From the Window
Online Exhibition 23 Mar - 6 May 2023Artists have often depicted windows as portals between two realms: the real and the imagined, the intimate and the unfamiliar. It is a divide between a private place and a...Read more -
Coast
1 Apr - 1 May 2021Find the online viewing room for Coast here. Scotland’s coastline is one which naturally inspires in its dramatic geography. Coast presents a journey around the shores of the Scottish homeland,...Read more -
Christmas
at The Fine Art Society 4 - 23 Dec 2020Read more -
Hang 4 //
Modern Scottish Pictures 1 - 19 Sep 2020Celebrating the variety of 20th century Scottish Art, this selection of works captures modern perspectives of Scottish identity. In the face of global societal and technological change, the artists’ focus...Read more -
Ron Sandford
114°E / 1°W Hong Kong to Shetland 14 May - 13 Jun 2020Hong Kong and Yell: two halves of The Fine Art Society’s first exhibition of drawings by Ron Sandford (b.1937). Island life from two geographically and culturally distinct and distant places...Read more
