Ronald Ronaldson obituary

The artist Ronald Ronaldson, who has died aged 95, delighted in the colour and form of his pictures, the paint exploding on to the surface or applied with close toned subtlety. His paintings excited the buying public and many people were keen to own one.Ronald bought his first oils as a young seaman while he was in Cape Town, South Africa. A self-taught figurative painter, he used abstraction in the composition of his landscape, coastal and still-life paintings. Constantly re-examining art, he w