Ronnie Wood was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, in 1947, into a musical and artistic family – his father Arthur was an amateur musician and ten-year-old Ronnie played his first gig as a member of his father’s Original London Skiffle Group at the Regal cinema in Uxbridge. At sixteen years old, before pursuing his musical career, Ronnie went to Ealing College of Art in west London.
Ronnie’s paintings of musicians and the Rolling Stones in particular command high prices and yet his art is not restricted to just musical subjects. He paints animals and landscapes as well as portraits of other well-known figures including the large painting of London’s ‘movers and shakers’ that adorns the wall of the capital’s Ivy restaurant. Among those who own original Ronnie Wood artworks are former US President Bill Clinton, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jack Nicholson.