www.Welcome to a Watercolourist's World.www

This website is currently under major renovations so a few things are a bit wobbly.  Apologies and all will be finished soon.

This website  is a slice of life of watercolour painter Ray Barnett.  Click on the ''online gallery'' and you'll see his recent paintings.  Click on ''demonstration paintings'' and you'll see, in stages, how a watercolour painting is created.  These are taken from Ray's recent  ''painting classes''.  There are also over 30 staged demonstration paintings on the '' QAS 4th Sunday Class , Bungendore School of Art , NGA workshop , Batemans Bay Art Society, Kiama Art society and ANU Continuing Education Classes pages. 

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.

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 30 first prize art ''awards''.  Ray has been working as a professional  full time artist since 1988.

next exhibition 'Jakarta in Watercolour' Bungendore Fine Art opening July 2012

A recent exhibition was ''an ekphrastic exhibition''. Click to go to the page.

Ray regularly exhibits at Bungendore Fine Art in Bungendore NSW, Paintbox Fine Art in Canberra,  Bilyara Gallery near Tathra NSW, Kiama Art Gallery, Kiama NSW and Ecliptic Art Gallery in Armadale, Melbourne.