Ray Malone

Malone makes beautiful, questioning paintings, moving from one approach to another with a freedom that belies the continuity of his enquiry.

Apart from an A-level art course at school from 1955-57 and an experimental course at the Working Men’s College in London in 1990-91, Malone is entirely self-taught. He has exhibited in numerous shows across the UK and has paintings in private collections internationally.

His works mine a rich seam in abstract painting, exploring the interplay between rectilinear form and more expressive brushstrokes, charged colour and visceral mark-making. But, whatever the mode of the individual work, his paintings all engage with otherwise neglected processes of perception.