Ray Johnstone

Bonjour.
I'm Ray Johnstone, and I live in a small medieval village in south west France.
I spend most of my time painting, writing and teaching art, but I still find time to play petanque most afternoons (the game they play with iron balls all over France).
I firmly believe that everyone - yes, everyone - can learn to paint and draw, and I teach children and adults, as well as individuals, families and groups. (For more information about art holidays, simply cut and paste the following: ’Ray Johnstone France’).
If you’d like a quote on any painting you might like to think about commissioning me to do, please email me the details. (Please keep in mind that I can paint almost any subject FROM A PHOTOGRAPH). I’ll get back to you right away.

Ray Johnstone is an artist and writer. He was born in South Africa in 1943 and educated at Parktown Boys’ High School and the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg.
Ray graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts, majoring in painting, drawing and sculpture.
He then participated in several group exhibitions in Johannesburg, including two at the prestigious Total Gallery.
One of his large nudes on show at a Pretoria exhibition created a controversy when a screen had to be erected around the painting to prevent it being seen by the then South African Prime Minister John Vorster.




Ray and his family emigrated to Australia in 1980 where he had seven solo exhibitions in Melbourne.
In 1997 he won the Applied Chemicals International Acquisitive Prize for a watercolour of a Victorian factory.
Australian radio personalities Terry Lane and Doug Aiton both have portraits done by Ray and his works are held by private collectors in France, Hong
Kong, Holland the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.