Born 6th in a family of 9 and raised in Lord's Cove, a small close knit community on the south coast of the Burin Peninsula.  Ron has also been dabbling in the idea of one day painting and drawing and always doodling in his past time.  Like many others, the opportunity or availability of art lessons were absent in rural areas and it was not until 1998 when he decided to take some lessons for the first time with the Ed Roche school of art.

The passion he felt from painting immediately grabbed hold of him and he hasn't stopped since.  Ron says that the yarns that he has in class makes him re-live where he came from every time he goes to class and leaves him with a great feeling.  Even though he knows that every painting is a lesson to him, he knows he's not perfect, but improvable.

Ron has had his works in several of Ed Roche's student Art Exhibitions at the Holiday Inn and has sold many of his originals.  This is the first time that Ron has been encouraged to do some printing of his work and currently he is working on some Christmas pieces.