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Ron Edwards catalogues tropical Australian folklore and bushcraft.
Ron Edwards... Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Australian folklore and bushcraft authority, saddlery expert, teacher, writer, poet, illustrator and visual artist... has an impressive record of artistic accomplishments.
With his artist wife, Anne, Ron may be found in the shade of the banyan tree at Port Douglas markets on a Sunday morning.
Surrounded by paintings of horses, boats, island life, local scenery and scores of his illustrated books, Ron usually spends the morning chatting to passers–by as he works on his latest painting.
In 1950 Ron Edwards founded the Rams Skull Press, which is the largest publisher of books on Australian bushcraft and folklore in the country.
He is currently the president of the Australian Folklore Society and has 120 books in print, their subjects ranging from children’s stories to bush crafts and folk music. Once, when Anne was ill and Ron needed to be the cook, he even wrote his own recipe book!
Ron Edwards is a well recognised artist, with awards from Swinburne University, the Advance Australia Foundation and the Order of Australia medal being amongst plaudits earned over the years.
He is always good for a yarn so don’t forget to look him up … and take home a painting…or a few of his delightful, inexpensive small books about
Australian folklore and bushcraft
as well!
Sad Note: Sadly, Ron died in 2008 so you won't be able to find him under that banyan tree any more. But my guess is that his spirit lives on there and in the islands of the Torres Strait that he so enjoyed visiting with Anne.
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