Ralph's work has been featured in solo and curated exhibitions in the UK, Germany, Italy, Holland and USA. Solo exhibitions have included Tate St Ives, Freud Museum, Gardner Arts Centre, Millennium Gallery, Royal Cornwall Museum, Camden Arts Centre and Campden Gallery. He was an elected artist member of both the the Newlyn and Penwith Artist Societies, and in 1998 founded the St Ives Jazz Club. Alongside his art practice, Ralph continues to compose and perform as a jazz pianist. He now works from his London Studio.
Ralph Freeman (b. 1945) is a British artist whose distinctive practice explores the expressive possibilities of abstraction, form, colour and space. He spent over two decades working in St Ives, Cornwall, where the surrounding landscape, sea and sky helped inform his contemplative paintings. Working primarily in oil on canvas and linen, Freeman creates evocative compositions in which organic shapes, architectural structures and subtle shifts of colour suggest fragments of memory, places and experiences, while leaving space for personal interpretation. Alongside his painting, he has developed a significant body of collage and mixed-media relief works exploring family history, identity, exile and migration. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Tate St Ives and the Freud Museum in London. Now working from his London studio, Freeman continues to explore the relationship between abstraction, memory and the passage of time, bringing a quiet, poetic sensibility to his work.