* RONALD FORBES RSA RGI, THE FISH

acrylic on canvas, signed and dated 1996 framed image size 51cm x 61cm, overall size 72cm x 61cm Note: Ronald Forbes is a painter, film-maker and print-maker in various media. Forbes was Head of Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee until 2002. He has held many residency posts, the most recent as the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Scottish Crop Research Institute. The resultant exhibition, De Rerum Natura completed a two-year tour including Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Perth Art Gallery and Museum as the Perth Festival of the Arts Exhibition. His most recent film, Joking Apart, was an official selection for the Glasgow Short Film Festival in 2012 and received an Award of Merit from the Lucerne Film Festival. He has had more than thirty-five solo exhibitions and has exhibited in the UK, Ireland, USA, Netherlands, Japan, Australia and elsewhere, and his work is held in many private, corporate and public collections around the world. His paintings and films have won numerous awards over many years.