Clive Ramage - Artist Statement
I have worked as a professional landscape painter and printmaker since 2008. During this time my creative process has constantly evolved, though I continue to work principally with watercolour, acrylics and oil, as well as concentrating on the etching process as a printmaker. Each of these media informs how I work in the others as I progress through a range of subject matter. I am self-taught and work full time between my home-based studio and at both Edinburgh and Dunfermline printmaking workshops.
I am chiefly concerned with capturing the ‘mood’ of the places that inspire me. I try to suffuse each piece with a sense of the atmosphere that took hold of me while I was there; be it climatic or something more ethereal and hard to define. I often go back to the same scene many times and reinterpret previous paintings in another medium or mood.
My inspiration comes from the ever changing colours and moods brought on by variations in seasonal, lighting or weather conditions and my main compositional focus has, up until now, been the city of Edinburgh and the Scottish coastline. However, I am constantly on the lookout for new ideas and creative challenges and spend much of my time travelling and sketching in my camper van in search of both, as well as visiting galleries in the UK and abroad to seek out the art and artists who are closest to my heart.
A Selection of Recent Exhibitions & Projects
2018 – Society of Scottish Artists Annual Open Exhibition (SSA), RSA Edinburgh
2018 – Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, RSA Edinburgh (Nov/Dec)
2018 – Frames Gallery, Perth (Winter Exhibition, Nov – March)
2018 – Dunfermline Carnegie Library, Paper from across the sea - Washi Umi o Koete (Sept) with Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop
2018 – St Columbas Hospice Art Show, Edinburgh (Oct)
2018 – Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh
2918 – Gallery Heinzel Summer and Winter Shows
2018 – Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh (July)
2018 – ArTay, Perth festival of the Arts (May)
2018 – Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 – Glasgow Print Studio, Paper from across the sea - Washi Umi o Koete (March)
with Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop
2017 – The Velvet Easel, Portobello
2017 – Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Paper from across the sea - Washi Umi o Koete (Nov) with Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop
2017 – Solo Exhibition, Howe Street Gallery, Edinburgh (Oct)
2017 – Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition (July–Oct)
2017 – The Coach House, Pittenweem Arts Festival (August)
2017 – ArTay, Perth Festival of the Arts (18–21st May)
2017 – Strathearn Gallery, Crieff, Grand Art (22 April–21st May)
2017 – Quay Gallery, Aberdour
2017 – Gallery at Fifty Five, Stonehaven (March)
2017 – Frames Gallery, Perth, (Winter Exhibition, Jan – March)
2016 – Society of Scottish Artists Annual Open Exhibition (SSA), RSA Edinburgh
2016 – Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, RSA Edinburgh
2016 – Macmillan Art Show, Bonhams, Edinburgh (25–28th Aug)
2016 – Maggie’s Cancer Care Charity Event, Edinburgh (June 23)
2016 – Gallery Heinzel Summer Show (11 June–20 August)
2016 – St Columbas Hospice Art Show, Edinburgh (2–5th June)
2016 – ArTay, Perth festival of the Arts (May)
2016 – Frames Gallery, Perth, The Art of Printmaking (5 March–2 April)
2016 – Morningside Gallery, Small Paintings Exhibition (January)
2015 – Society of Scottish Artists, Annual Open Exhibition (Dec 21 2015–Jan 18 2016)
2015 – Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline Northern Lights Solo Exhibition (November 2015)
2015 – The Stage Door, Dunfermline (Solo from July)
2015 – ArTay (Perth Festival of the Arts)
2015 – Frames Gallery, Perth (March)
2015 – Morningside Gallery (Small Paintings Exhibition)
2014 – Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen (Winter Exhibition, 14 Nov 2014–March 2015)
2014 – St Andrews Museum & Gallery (Sept–November)
2013 – Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Open, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow (Nov/ Dec)
2013 – Impact 8 International Printmakers Conference, Duncan of Jordanstone (Aug)
with Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop
2013 – Boxed-set of prints commissioned by The Carnegie Trust with Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop
2013 – Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour Open 2013, RSA Edinburgh
2012 – Meffan Gallery, Forfar (Christmas Exhibition)
2012 – Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
