RON FRANCIS

Born Sydney, Australia in 1954.
My earliest memory relating to art, is drawing huge Disney characters on my bedroom wall, and in retrospect, I'm surprised and grateful that my parents allowed me do it.
I settled in Melbourne in 1974 where I took up my vocation with fervor and began painting full time and improving what skills I had.
By 1980 I was represented in the first of several exhibitions and in the following years I became interested in involving the viewer more directly in my paintings. I realized that there was a direct mathematical correlation between a viewpoint and the objects in a painting which eventually led to my developing formulas for application with perspective, and also computer software to accommodate them.
In 1988 I began working in affiliation with Fresco Site Specific Art, painting trompe l'oeil murals. It was an easy transition because my interest in perspective was directly applicable to trompe l'oeil.
The perspective in most of the paintings is calculated to look right from a particular viewing position. When viewed from this position, the viewer should be able to feel like they are part of the scene, looking around in it as if looking around in real life.
Paintings can condense an idea or emotion into an image that can portray something that can't be described using words. I approached learning to paint with one main aim; to refine my technique enough to be able to create a realistic representation of anything that I may imagine or dream.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

'A Different Perspective' 2004

'Light and Dark', 2006

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