Ian Ribbons Art: Home

Use the categories on the left to browse the site. If you know anything about any of the images please leave a comment, this is how I hope eventually to document Ian's work. If you want to contact me direct please email me here . I apologise for the image quality on some of the scans, most were made a few years back and should be redone - that's for another time though! Thanks for looking.

New Website Launched!
I'm very happy to announce the launch of Ian's new website. Ian Ribbons Fine Art will initially be selling limited edition prints of about 50 of Ian's watercolours, about half of which are London scenes, the remainder being a collection of European paintings. Our museum grade prints use lightfast pigment inks and are individually checked to ensure they are the closest possible match to the original. Proceeds from this site will be used to help fund a London exhibition which we hope to organise for 2014/2015.
Please check out the site here - if you have any comments we would love to hear from you either on this blog or through the contact form on the web site

About this blog

Ian was a fantastic artist who focused on light and movement, drawing and painting wherever he went - fascinated by a detail on a building or the look on someone's face, out would come the pad, and a record was swiftly made. As well as painting and drawing scenes and people all over Europe, Ian illustrated profusely, often using pen and ink to distil the essence of a scene.

Ian also wrote and illustrated his own books, including a fantastic series of 'One Day in History' titles such as the Battle of Trafalgar book which is mentioned in the link above. These books used an innovative eyewitness approach to history and were very successful at the time.

Since Ian died in 2002 much of his work has lain uncatalogued and unseen in my house in Swanage and that of his other son, Mortimer Ribbons, in London. This website is at long last a serious attempt to begin the recording and annotating of his art, aided I hope by people who knew him and his work. Although there is much missing from this first 'edition', I hope eventually to make as complete a record as possible of his work.

Initially I'm hoping to record the comments of people who new Ian and his art. For this reason I have decided to present Ian's work in blog format, to facilitate the process of receiving information from viewers who might have some story to tell about a particular picture, or perhaps just a general comment about Ian or his art.

In due course this site may transform into a proper archive of Ian's work, and I hope one day it may lead to an exhibition in London, which was Ian's home and inspiration for many years.

Shannon

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Ian on Antiques Roadshow - BBC1 March 6th