Ron Bayens (Born in 1965) was born in Toronto, Canada. He began painting while he was in Junior High School. To perfect his skills, he continued with his education at the Ontario College of Art and Design where he won many awards and was chosen to apprentice for two years with a classical painter and renowned art teacher, Michael John Angel, who’s now the director of the Angel Academy in Florence Italy. Bayens not only is an accomplished portrait painter but also paints figurative, landscapes, still-lifes, genre as well as etching. He follows in the footsteps of the great masters of the past. Bayens moved to the United States in 1995 to pursue a career in portrait work. There was a proud and long tradition of portraiture in the southeast and Bayens was quickly embraced by the South and his art has been in great demand ever since. He boasts hundreds of satisfied clients, who have helped to spread word about him very fast.
He is now regarded as one of the leading artists in the country. Bayens’ fine art and portraits hang in many leading Museums, Universities, private homes and hospitals. He enjoys teaching students in his studio at the Auburn historical site, Greystone Mansion painting, and also enjoys commissioned works. He has been painting professionally for close to three decade and his works hang in private and public collections throughout Canada, Europe and America. His works have also been published as posters and limited edition prints. If he’s not painting, he enjoys canoeing and camping and reading historical nonfiction books and biographies.
