Ronald Webb

The painter Ronald Webb, based in Menorca, has been creating paintings to the music of Kathleen Ferrier. Ferrier was an operatic singer from Blackburn who passed away from breast cancer in 1953 aged 41.


Webb has always been influenced by music and how paint can replicate the feeling of that music. The exhibition was held at Blackburn Museum (Ferrier's place of birth) in September. At first, the paintings appeared to have very little detail and I wondered how they were supposed to represent music. But when I looked closer it was clear that the oil paints had created a fantastic texture that contined such a mixture of colours. The emotion displayed on the canvas was very clear to the viewer. My favourite was a piece called "Ca' the yowes", which unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of.