More about the Artist

Ray Johnstone


Curriculum Vitae

Ray Johnstone was born in South Africa (1943) where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts, majoring in painting, drawing and sculpture, and where he participated in several group shows, including several at the prestigious Total Gallery in Johannesburg.
One of his large nudes in a Pretoria University exhibition created a controversy when a screen had to be erected around the painting to prevent it being seen by the Prime Minister who was due to visit the University.
While living in Australia, he had seven solo exhibitions in Melbourne, and in 1997 he won the Applied Chemicals International Acquisitive Prize for a watercolour painting of a Victorian building in Williamstown.
Australian radio personalities Terry Lane and Doug Aiton both have had portraits done by Ray.
His works are held by private collectors in France, the USA, Canada, the UK, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
Ray and Lynne Johnstone now live permanently in Mézin, SW France, where they operate a gite and a gallery and where they offer live-in painting holidays.

 
Exhibitions:

2006 Armand Fallières et les Artistes de son Temps                  Office du Tourisme, Mézin
2005 Le Village en Été La Petite Galerie                                       Mézin
2004 Recontres d'Arts Contemporains                                          Nantes 2004 Nantes
2004 Le Boulanger, les Fleurs et les Petanqueurs                       Office du Tourisme, Mézin
2004 Exposition de peintures                                                          Salon des Vacances, Caen
2003 La Passion des Pigeonniers                                                    Office du Tourisme, Mézin
2003 Voyages en France                                                                  Office du Tourisme, Mézin
2002 Villages & Visages                                                                    Office du Tourisme,Mézin
2001 La Petite Galerie                                                                      Expo La Petite Galerie, Mézin
2000 'Paint France' Alliance Francaise Melbourne 1999            'Melbourne Icons' Art Affairs                                                                                                               Gallery
1998 'The Centre and the Sea'                                                         Disegno Gallery, Melbourne
1997 'Ships, Flowers, Faces, Places'                                                Customs Wharf, Melbourne
1995 'Flowers, Faces, Places'                                                            Roar 2 Studios, Melbourne
1993 'Nudes & Portraits'                                                                   Roar 2 Studios, Melbourne
1991 'Adam & Eve and Other Nudes'                                              Roar 2 Studios, Melbourne
1978-1990 Various group exhibitions                                             South Africa and Australia