Dr. Donnie Ross MB, ChB, FFARCS, FRCA

Brief Biography

Based in Scotland, Donnie Ross at present combines a long-term deep interest in watercolour painting, with more recently development of painting dream-scapes in oils. In previous years there have been large-format oil paintings of reflections in water, and currently renewed exploration of abstracts in oil on paper along with an increasing emphasis on drawing and a return to representation. 

He had a long and very successful career as a medical doctor, in the course of which he was a founder-member of Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, which he chaired for ten years. He is Past President of Aberdeen Artists Society (1990-1992).

As a member of Council of Aberdeen Artists Society, https://aberdeenartistssociety.co.uk, Donnie Ross played a key role in helping to organise the extremely well-received online exhibition, “Coming Home”, which he was invited to curate.

The AAS Online Exhibition “Coming Home” can be seen here:

https://publicgalleryaas.oess1.uk

In 2020, Dr Donnie Ross was delighted to establish the Dr Donnie Ross Prize for Innovation and Creativity in Watercolour in the first AAS Online Exhibition, “Coming Home”, and the prize-winning paintings can be seen at:

https://publicgalleryaas.oess1.uk/Home/AASprizewinners

Acknowledgements

Dr Donnie Ross writes: “Contact with people like Norman Matheson MBE, Arthur Watson PRSA, Ian McKenzie Smith CBE PPRSA PPRSW, Alexander Fraser RSA, Joyce Cairns RSA RSW, the late Sandy Fraser, James Furneaux and Bill Baxter, as well as Don Addison, Sydney Burnett and Andy Dewar at both GHAT and Aberdeen Artists Society inspired me to develop in a different, more creative direction.  I also owe a debt of gratitude to my teachers, particularly Susie Hunt, and earlier to Charles Hemingway, Bob Batchelor, Bella Green, Barbara Strawa-Payne, Eden Jolly at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and I have been influenced recently too by the inspiring art and teaching of Jane Hislop.

I'm eternally grateful to the staff in the AMD and Vitreoretinal services at the Eye Clinic in Aberdeen, Dr. Cynthia Santiago, Dr Andreea Ionean, Ms Kath Greiner, Mr Vijay Hegde, Charge Nurse Breeda Donnelly, Charge Nurse Vivian Reid, and Charge Nurse Lorna Stephen and her staff in Ophthalmology Ward 203.  Thanks to these people and their colleagues, I continue to have good eyesight.”

I am extremely grateful for the support and encouragement of AAS Hanging Curators Susie Hunt, Andy Dewar, Martin Stevenson, Gerry Stott, along with AAS President Bruce Swanson.

Last but not least, I am immensely grateful to Andy Laffan of Int-Tech, who made it possible to create our online exhibition at incredible speed and to an extremely high quality of design and presentation, and subsequently provided 7-star customer support.

Donnie Ross CV: https://www.donnierossart.com/visionpavilion/#/page-cv/