Ralph Douglas

Ralph Douglas attends Project Ability’s Aspire programme.

Ralph has been attending the workshops for many years and throughout that time we have seen him paint many portraits and self portraits rendered in an expressionist style, recalling the Romantic paintings of the past. Ralph applies layers of paint in soft swathes to carefullly make his pictures, combining intricate detail with painterly expression. It is in the unique way that he paints his subjects, with their happy faces, that achieve such a disarming light-heartedness. In Ralph's drawings, figures and faces appear through a tangle of contours, with the drawing itself resembling hatched-line incisions on a cutting board. Ralph’s work is vigorous and playful demonstrating an ambling and experimental approach towards the use of line in drawing and expression in painting and over the years has created many unique self portraits and reproductions of iconic religious paintings in his own signature style.

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