Ronald J. Tinney was born in 1958 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He attended Penn State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1980. He continued his education at Ohio Northern University Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1983. Ron and his wife Sherry moved to Cape Cod in 1996, where he discovered the thriving art community of the Cape and Islands. Ron focuses mainly on marine and landscape painting. He works on location year round, sketching and painting en plein air. Ronald Tinney has studied with Donald Demers, Robert Hunter Douglas, Arnold Desmarais, Joseph McGurl, Gregg Kreutz, William Davis, and Sergio Roffo.