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Raymond Sinclair is an artist and painter living in England, Suffolk. Bury St Edmunds is his current hometown.

He began painting in Upper School however the first ever painting he began on stretched canvas was in 2002. The painting of the family cat ‘Cubby’ was the subject and the medium was in Acrylic. It was in 2005 when Ray switched to Oil paint for the first time and the painting was titled ‘Radius Express’. The time period of Rays work can be classed in two categories. From 2002 – 2009 were all the paintings completed while in education known as the ‘Student year Paintings’. Most of them were painted in Acrylic and rather small, most being no larger than A3. The later painting made after 2009 are the more advanced and complete selection done in oil paint. Rays later work reflected on modern day culture much more than his student work, and the layers of the painting more complex and rich.

Raymond studied AS photography at West Suffolk College and then Continued onto Graphic design and attained a National Diploma [A] grade. He graduated from a three-year degree in Graphic Design at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge. Raymond has always painted while in education and along the course submitted some artwork to Artist and illustrators magazine which two pieces were published in 07. One year later Photoshop Creative published an article on his mixed media illustrations. Later Raymond entered the Suffolk showcase competition and they accepted a painting for the Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery to hang in July and August 09. 259 works were submitted and out of these 52 were selected. Later this year thanks to the previous publication was spotted and showcased some of his work. Under the guidance of Ronnie Zimmermann and Helen Hofmann held a show of some artwork abroad in July of 2009. Ray finished that year with an exhibition in Liverpool. The year 2010 had been very successful. He applied for Smiths Row 2010 summer show and successfully had a painting hung. In august of 2010 the magazine ‘Artist and illustrators’ published one of his new paintings ‘ Titanic’ which was seen by thousands around the country.

‘Titanic’, to date has received the most popular reception and the only picture out of two to be published in the Artist and Illustrators ‘2010’ August magazine. The other only painting to have been published in the same magazine to date was in 2007 ‘The Car’ titled Acrylic.

Ray finished the year with an advent exhibition at the Highwayman’s in Suffolk. In 2011 Ray applied for the summer show at the Royal Academy and was very pleased to have a picture shortlisted. A few months later he was lucky enough to have another picture shortlisted at the Cork Street Gallery in July of the same year.