Ian Ritchie RSW mixed media artist
Victorian Poisoners
and
Southern
Gothic
Belles
My current mixed media works are contemporary interpretations of stories of Victorian women poisoners such as Glasgow's Madeleine Smith who murdered her lover with arsenic laced hot chocolate. The infamous Mary Ann Cotton also known as the Dark Angel who poisoned her many victims with aresenic laced tea.
The themes have also developed to include female poisoners from Dark Country ballads such as Wanda from the song by the Chicks " Goodbye Earl".She and her longtime friend poison her abusive husband Earl with poisoned blacked eyed peas!
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Ian Ritchie RSW
Contemporary mixed media artist
Jan Patience: "Ian Ritchie's Dark lady stares at the viewer uncrompromisinly.The chalky layers of the figure's face and the delicate black lace of her dress confounds all expectations of watercolour "
About the Artist
I am married to Norma and have three daughters. I live in the heart of Angus, one of the four Ancient Pictish Kingdoms, sandwiched between the Grampian Mountains and the River Tay. I am lecturer at Dundee and Angus College. My main area of teaching is in Art and Design with specific subject specialism in drawing and painting.
I am also a practicing contemporary artist working in Mixed media, acrylic paint and box construction. I am interested in a variety of subjects including Scottish Legends, The Highland Clearances and Scottish Emigration. The artists who have had most influence on my work are Will MacLean and Andrew Wyeth.
Email: i.ritchie34@gmail.com Mobile: 07784822744 Facebook: Instagram:
media and techniques
New works I am currently working on are based on Neo Victoriana and specifically investigating themes around Victorian Poisoners and the effects of Arsenic on Victorian Society. This has also spawned into Southern Gothic femme fatales from Contemporary Dark Country ballads. My current mixed media pieces are painted in acrylic paints on paper or card. They also use a variety of collaged images including photographs, image transfers, wallpaper, photocopies and printing techniques.
selected awards
- Eadie Award for Painting DJCA. 1987
- Exposure Gallery Prize Royal Glasgow Institute. 2009
- Turcan Connell Prize RSW,Edinburgh 2015
- Elected Member of the RSW 2018
- J&W Gordon Smith Award SSA. Edinburgh. December 2022
- John Gray Award RSW, Edinburgh January 2023
selected exhibitions
- Hunting Group Art Awards,Mall Galleries, London Finalist 1988, 1989.1990
- The Chosen Few Contemporary Scottish Painters at The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
- Regular exhibitor at Aberdeen Artists Society, Royal Scottish Academy, Visual Arts Scotland, Scottish Society of Artists.
- Society of Arts ,Royal Society of Artists in Watercolour and Royal Glasgow Institute since 1987
- The First Morrison Portrait Awards, Exhibition, RSA Edinburgh 1988
- Cornerstone Gallery Dunblane Solo exhibition and with Jonathan Hood 1994
selected exhibitions
- Finalist in the Laing Seascape/Landscape Competition Talbot-Rice Edinburgh and mall Galleries, London 1995
- Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld mixed exhibitions since 1988 and with Malcolm Cheape 1998
- The Leith gallery. Solo Exhibitions, group shows. Since 1997
- Finalist, The Noble Grossart Painting Prize, RSA Edinburgh and GSA.
- Scotland team member, Fabriano paper international Watercolour Exhibition ,Fabriano Italy.2017
- Aberdeen Artists Society , SSA 130th Exhibition and RSW 2022.
- RSA, RSW and SSA Exhibitions 2023.
- Smithy Gallery Strathblane. Summer and Winter Shows 2023/24.
- RI Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London. April 2024
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