Clive Ramage

Clive Ramage

I took my first steps to becoming a full time artist over 30 years ago after moving from my hometown of Arbroath to Edinburgh to study a subject completely separate from my artistic pursuits. However, my passion for drawing and painting have remained consistently to the fore and I have been working as a dedicated full-time artist since 2008. A great deal of my work is an attempt to capture the mood of the places that fire my imagination. As a child, I would spend many a spellbound night gazing out of my bedroom window towards the clockwork flash of the Bell Rock, or longingly at the twinkling lights of St Andrews and the villages of Fife’s East Neuk more than 20 miles away across the cold dark sea. I am an unashamed romantic and these dreamlike scenes, alongside my minutely detailed paintings of Scotland’s capital city, are now regular motifs in my work. Since moving to Aberdeen in 2021, I am finding new inspiration in the northeast of Scotland.Being self-taught, I believe there are no set rules within which an artist should constrain themselves and this is evident in both my practice and subject matter. Using a mixed media approach, I am equally at ease producing works in oil, watercolour, pen and even etchings, allowing me to combine vibrant palettes with energetic, expressive line and brushwork.My paintings and prints have featured in many prestigious exhibitions, including those held annually by the Royal Scottish Academy, Aberdeen Artists Society, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Society of Scottish Artists.

I took my first steps to becoming a full time artist over 30 years ago after moving from my hometown of Arbroath to Edinburgh to study a subject completely separate from my artistic pursuits. However, my passion for drawing and painting have remained consistently to the fore and I have been working as a dedicated full-time artist since 2008.

A great deal of my work is an attempt to capture the mood of the places that fire my imagination. As a child, I would spend many a spellbound night gazing out of my bedroom window towards the clockwork flash of the Bell Rock, or longingly at the twinkling lights of St Andrews and the villages of Fife’s East Neuk more than 20 miles away across the cold dark sea. I am an unashamed romantic and these dreamlike scenes, alongside my minutely detailed paintings of Scotland’s capital city, are now regular motifs in my work. Since moving to Aberdeen in 2021, I am finding new inspiration in the northeast of Scotland.Being self-taught, I believe there are no set rules within which an artist should constrain themselves and this is evident in both my practice and subject matter. Using a mixed media approach, I am equally at ease producing works in oil, watercolour, pen and even etchings, allowing me to combine vibrant palettes with energetic, expressive line and brushwork.My paintings and prints have featured in many prestigious exhibitions, including those held annually by the Royal Scottish Academy, Aberdeen Artists Society, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Society of Scottish Artists.

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