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.  On this home page on the left are links to pages that are 'hints and wrinkles' for aspring watercolour painters.

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 bike) and from the titles of his past exhibitions it can be seen that he has painted subjects from many foreign parts- Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Spain, England, Ireland and Italy.  Recently Canada and Cuba have 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.

Last Exhibition

'Journey along the Murray' - opened Bungendore Fine Art - Sunday 7 December 2008

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