Norma Bailey Ramsey

Norma Bailey Ramsey was born in Melbourne in 1948. During the 1970s Norma focused her attention on oil painting and began formal tutoring with Pat Graham in the Tonalist Tradition and later studied under A. Colhoun. From this initial grounding she then began experimenting in abstraction. Her first exhibit was in Castlemaine in 1985 and she has had strong regional representation ever since in group and with solo exhibitions. She discovered a preference for acrylic over oils in the late 1990s and with this choice broke from the strict Tonalist tradition she had been trained in. She is best known for her portraiture and figurative works.