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This website  is a slice of life of watercolour painter Ray Barnett.  Click on the ''Online Gallery'' and you'll see his recent paintings. 

 "Turn to the rear"

Click on "Demonstration Paintings" and you will see the steps involved in creating a painting.  These are taken from Ray's classes of the past years at various art society workshops, ANU Continuing Education classes, National Gallery and Archives of Australia demonstrations and outdoor venues.   This web site originally originally provided a post class record of the paintings completed at these events and over the years hundreds of paintings filled these pages.  The number of these uploaded paintings has been reduced to just cover a selection of subjects and techniques.

As you'll see on the ''Online Gallery'' Ray paints particular events and places- people at work or play, in the city, farms or waterfront.  His paintings could be considered a narrative of the times as they include many aspects of present day life, for example, building workers or fishermen, horse races and boat races  or  marching bands and orchestras.

"Down the Straight"

Ray travels extensively (usually on a push bike) and from the titles of his past ''Exhibitions'' it can be seen that he has painted subjects from many foreign parts- Cuba, Canada, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Spain, England, Ireland and Italy.  Recently Indonesia has been added to the locations that have supplied subjects for his paintings.  Ray has been painting for a long time with the earliest recognition of his work being a number of primary school prizes.  Since then he has won over 40 first prize art ''Awards''.  Ray has been working as a professional  full time artist since 1988.

A past exhibition at Bungendore Fine Art was titled   'Jakarta in Watercolour'

These paintings can be viewed here on the on line gallery.  These paintings are all sold.

 A previous exhibition also at Bungendore Fine Art was an 'ekphrastic exhibition'. This is where the artwork is across two or more genres - in this case poetry and painting coming together.  Esteemed poet Ros Donlon wrote the lines to accompany the paintings.  Some of these paintings are below.  Click on any of these images to go to the page that shows the images and accompanying words.

Ray regularly exhibits at Bungendore Fine Art in Bungendore NSW, and other galleries in Vic and NSW from time to time