SANTA FE, N.M..- LewAllen Galleries announcing that we are now representing the work of Ron Kingswood, an internationally regarded painter of contemporary naturalism. At a time when biodiversity, habitat, and species are imperiled, Kingswood’s sophisticated paintings are reminders about the precious wonder present in the natural world.
Kingswood’s beautiful paintings are elegant, intimate glimpses of nature and the remarkable life within it. They are distinguished for redefining traditional wildlife painting and presenting a uniquely different approach to exploring the spatial grandeur and inner spirit he finds at the intersection of landscape, habitat, and wildlife. There is a sense of quiet nobility and dignity in the works that helps the viewer relate to them as real and with a penetrating empathy. Scenes seem to be snipped from the thread of time and stopped for the viewer to delight in, inviting meditation about the preciousness of nature and its timelessness.
Having been described as “a refreshing iconoclast” of wildlife art, Kingswood creates works known for going beyond literal depiction of likeness into unconventional impressionistic compositions that suggest deeper, often ethereal experience of place and profound connection with environment and the species that inhabit it. Unlike traditional wildlife painters, Kingswood is described by Western Art and Architecture as an "unconventional, nonconformist, who pushes the envelope of traditional nature painting."
It is this level of artistic innovation–his incomparable use of bands of color, reserved hues, and assertive brushwork–that makes his paintings exciting, full of silent energy, and provides a nearly zen-like quality. His frequent use of asymmetrical negative space counterbalanced against forms of trees, clouds, ice, or birds in flight that enter or depart at the painting’s edge, are only some of the other features that radically transcend traditional wildlife paintings to transform his works into enlightened moments of being in nature itself.
Born in St. Thomas, Ontario, in 1959, Ron Kingswood studied at H.B. Beal in London, Ontario, and received a degree in Bird Ecology and Ornithology at The University of Western Ontario. Kingswood’s paintings have been exhibited internationally at both private and public galleries and museums. In 2022, he was awarded the Major General and Mrs. Don D. Pittman Wildlife Award at the Prix de West International Art Exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Kingswood was recently featured in the Art of the West magazine. He lives and works in Sparta, Ontario.
