Watercolourist son of Jennette and Bernard Walford Ridley. He had art instruction from his uncle H. W. Gibbs and J. W. R. Linton. Ridley held a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery Newspaper House in 1945. The reviewer said that Ridley, “... [h]as worked with energy and enthusiasm which deserve recognition. The first impression is one of space and light; even in the smaller pictures this is the dominant note.”
Ridley exhibited Redhill View and other paintings with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1949 and 1952. He was president of the society in 1952. In 1949 Ridley exhibited two oil paintings The Boilershop and Contour Ploughing in the Claude Hotchin Art Prize. The next year he exhibited oils and watercolours in the Art Competition at Art Gallery of Western Australia. In 1956 Ridley exhibited one watercolour.
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- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
