Joyce Ringrose
Joyce mainly paints in acrylics and her remaining work is largely concerned with coastal landscape. The cliffs, quarries, beaches and harbours of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall are a constant source of inspiration. As like past geniuses such as Matisse, failing sight did not hinder Joyce. Her bold use of colour continue to create joy out of our beautiful surroundings.
Joyce Ringrose, Dorset Coastal artist. August 1930 – December 2020.
Joyce was many things to many people. She was a mother to Ali, Karen, Simon, Giles and Janet. She was a sister to Tony and an auntie, grandmother, great grandmother and a good friend to all she knew.
Joyce was a pupil at Bournemouth School for Girls and a student at Bournemouth College of Art where she gained a qualification in Fine Art.
Whilst bringing up a large family, Joyce strove to maintain a balance in her life, enabling her to enjoy her passions of painting, ceramics, swimming, singing, gardening and managing a vegetable allotment. In addition, she was involved in CND & nuclear disarmament movements. Family and friends remember her well for being a wonderfully imaginative and experimental cook, too!
She returned to her art education as a mature student and completed a B. Ed. (honours) degree in Art and Ceramics followed by five years teaching at Portchester Boys School in Bournemouth.
Joyce gave up teaching in the mid 1980’s to establish the popular ‘Ringrose Pottery’ in Blandford. In 1995 she returned to her first love of painting.
Over the years, Joyce became a well-established Dorset artist, holding many exhibitions at galleries around the South-West and in her home, including the annual Dorset Arts Week exhibitions. The cliffs, quarries, beaches and harbours of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall were a constant source of inspiration to her.
During the last ten years of her life, while she was still painting and actively selling her work, we would drive to various galleries around Dorset distributing her artwork. As macular degeneration impacted her deteriorating vision, she became more of an abstract painter, creating bold colourful canvasses.
