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The love of our great country and the desire to share it with others through my paintings is what drives me to travel and paint.
Be it through a grand shearing shed of old, a majestic river gum on the banks of the of the Darling or the vast plains of the outback, this is our heritage.
If I can help influence others to preserve, protect and admire this beautiful land, I've done my job.
"The value of a work of art should be measured by the pleasure it brings" - Raymond Hill
Raymond has been producing his unique Australiana paintings for many years and has works in collections in Europe, Canada, USA, Japan, UK, Ireland, Italy and Australia.
As President and founding member of APAG – Australian Plein Air Artist Group, he is the driving force behind the encouragement of painting on location.
A love of the bush was started in his childhood when many hours were spent in the outback.
This love is obvious in the feelings and moods displayed in Raymond's paintings. However, an overseas trip with Kasey Sealy further expanded Raymond's insight to his painting with the different colours of the Italian and European landscape.
Plein-air painting started over 200 years ago in Southern England and then moved to France.
One hundred years later the members of the Heidelberg School became our best known Artists. People such as Buvelot, Streeton, McCubbin, and Julian Ashton plus others traveling into the bush to paint what they saw.
Restricted by the distance they could travel most of their work was localized out of Melbourne and Sydney.
They painted moods and feelings with all their senses tingled by the landscape before them, creating their unique art.
I follow on this tradition of Plein-air Painting with the added advantage of modern day travel enabling me to paint all over Australia and the world.
Raymond enjoys the opportunity to share his experiences with visitors. Recently his work was featured in the 238th edition of Australian Artist magazine.
Raymond can be contacted by phone: 03 5823 2159 or e-mail: jenray3@ozemail.com.au
Raymond is based at the Goanna Gallery in Kialla West.
