North-eastern artist with a meticulous and tranquil touchRon Bone, who has died aged 60, was a highly accomplished artist who was making the transition from serene interiors to portraiture when cancer intervened. He had finished only a small number of acrylics, including one of Sir Ian McKellen and studies of his own family, among them a moving self-portrait with intimations of coming ill-health, but light flooding his face from a studio window.His meticulous detail earned him comparisons to ...
Guardian Music — North-eastern artist with a meticulous and tranquil touchRon Bone, who has died aged 60, was a highly accomplished artist who was making the transition from serene inte... more info