Roy Ralph (1931-2005) Royal College of Art

“I hope people will look deeper. I hope people will detect the quiet confidence I have about the future of mankind”  Roy Ralph.

Roy Ralph trained at the Royal College of Art and Epsom School of Art which he attended from the age of fourteen.   He went on to work for the British Museum in the departments of Prints & Drawings and Oriental Antiquities and taught and lectured extensively. He later moved to Devon settling in Lydford on the edge of Dartmoor where he continued working for two more decades.

 Roy approached his art with an intellectual playfulness but much of his subject matter carried a deeper social and political meaning.  With a diverse body of work he cannot easily be categorised as his styles and subject matter developed and flowed with the times from Post War through to Post Modernism.

He had the ability to combine spontaneity and quirkiness, often with humour but always with a strong sense of design and colour. This immediately sets him apart, making his unique style recognisably his own