Ray's awards

Ray has won over 30 first prize awards includiing overall winner, (''Champion Exhibit'', ''Best of Show'', Theme Prize'') and many seconds and commended over the  two decades of his professional painting career. Only first and major prizes are listed below.

Most prizes have been as a result of local competions in the Canberra region and South Coast of NSW but also of note is the awarding of a major prize by the ''Australian Artist'' for their national watercolour competition, past Caltex prizes and a John Balmain Life and Portraiture Award.  Ray was a finalist in the  2010 Cricket Art Prize open to cricketing countries around the world.

Of particular interest is the Living and Working on the Land, Horse Racing and Heritage Theme prizes...and not forgetting the ''Brooke Bond (a tea company that used to be a well known brand in UK) Art Prize for Children in 1959!

2011 

• Peg Minty Prize for Landscape - Artist Society of Canberra annual exhibition 

• First prize watercolour- Peter Constant Memorial Prize- Goulburn Workers Club Art Prize

2010

• ''Best of Show'' Arts Society of Canberra spring exhibition

• finalist in Cricket Art Prize -travelling exhibition open to cricketing countries

• G.O.Kruger Prize - most outstanding in exhibition- Harden Murrinburrah Arts Council

2009

• First prize watercolour Royal Canberra Show

2008

• First prizes watercolour Queanbeyan Art Society 

         November Open Art Comp, Buffet Express Art Comp, Queanbeyan City Council Art Exhibition

2007

• runner up for Royal Canberra Show 'Heritage' all media prize  

2006

• first prize watercolour Artist Society of Canberra 

2005

• first prize watercolour and second in “Molonglo” theme prize, Artists Society of Canberra
• first prize “Living and working on the Land”, Royal Canberra Art Show
• watercolour prize, Tumut Art Show

2004

• first prize watercolour and first prize exhibition “Heritage” theme, Artists Society of Canberra

• first prize watercolour, Tumut Art Show

2003

• Champion Exhibit and first prize watercolour, Royal Canberra Art Show
• watercolour prize, Artists Society of Canberra

2002

• first prize, “Art of Racing” Queanbeyan Race Course
• first prize watercolour Bega Valley Art Awards
• people’s prize, Tuggernong Arts Centre Regional Arts Competition

1999

• people’s prize, Montague Art Society Easter Exhibition

1998

• finalist in “Australian Artist” national watercolour prize

1997

• first prize, “Australian Artist” national watercolour award

1996, 1992

• first prize watercolour, Bega Valley Art Award

1991, 1990

• first prize watercolour, Caltex Awards

1990

• first prize, John Balmain Life and Portraiture Award