About

Award-winning artist Greg Ramsden makes paintings inspired by maritime seascapes and the communities and working histories around them. His recent collections focus on estuaries, where ocean and river meet to shape the coastline through an endless exchange of tidal energies. These new paintings explore the nuances of atmosphere inherent in a landscape where water, land and light combine in ever changing ways. From the uplifting beauty of sun on still water, to the calming play of light on an overcast day, these paintings recall the essence of our visual, and emotive, engagement with the coast.

Greg is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. He studied at Sheffield Hallam University under Realist painter and Turner Prize nominee George Shaw, graduating with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting in 2003. In 2022 his documentary film The Artist, made in collaboration with Director Jamie Hull Greenwood, which explores the motivations behind Greg’s work, was the winner of multiple International IMDB film festival awards. In 2025 he won the Guild of Ships Painting Award and will consequently be Artist in Residence on the 68ft Lugger and eco-sailing vessel Greyhound on its journey from the UK to France this summer. The resulting works will be exhibited at Mall Galleries, London, in September. 

Greg lives in Devon and exhibits in the coastal South West and the maritime East Coast of America.


EXHIBITIONS 

2025

Group Show, 1780 House Concord, Boston Massachusetts USA 

Artist in Residence on the Luggar Grayhound on her journey to Brittany in France 

2024

Lead Artist in Residence, Montemarcello, Italy 

Winner, Afloat and Ashore Open Exhibition, Exeter Custom House 

Grayhound Historic Vessel Artist in Residence Award

2023

Solo Show, 1780 House Concord, Boston Massachusetts USA

Elected as an Associate Member of Royal Society of Marine Artist

2022 

Artist in Residence, 1780 House Concord, Boston Massachusetts USA

Best Oil Painting Award, Royal Society of Marine Artists 

2018 to 2021

Annual Selection for the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibitions

2017

South West Academy Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

South West Academy Exhibition, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon

2015

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum Academicians Exhibition