Mas Saurine

Creative holidays and workshops in the French Pyrenees Stages de peinture et ateliers creatifs dans les Pyrénées Orientales
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Painting and drawing en plein air
with Ken Ray BA (Hons) W.S.C.A.D





June and September 2012
 (dates to be confirmed)


Ken is an accomplished artist and designer with considerable experience of instructing in all media. Has been commissioned to paint on many occasions and has exhibited work at numerous venues. He will help you to see and interpret a variety of subjects on an exciting week of painting and drawing.
 
During your week with Ken we will visit a local market for sketching and then spend time working the sketches into paintings in the studio. Nearby are wonderful geranium clad villages with rambling streets and  old churches full of character.  Not forgetting the mountains all around just waiting challenge your painting and drawing techniques.  They may sit still but you have to be quick as the light changes all the time.

During the week we will visit Collioure on the Mediterranean coast.  This is where Matisse, Derain and Soutine painted.  The village is full of colourful houses.  There are three bays with boats, swimmers and ducks to paint and the famous bell tower and church. 



The cost for a week is 700 Euros per person

or 650 Euros for two artists sharing a room. 

Non-painting partners and artists not requiring tuition are very welcome at 600 Euros for the week.

 

Included in the price are your meals and tuition and pick up from Perpignan airport or railway station.  Flights and holiday insurance are not included.

 To reserve your place or for further information please contact Carolynn


About Ken Ray


CAREER SUMMARY: 1982 - to date

  • Lectured at the Farnborough Technical College, teaching HNC, HND, A Level Art and Access courses in Drawing, Painting Figure and Colour, in all media - namely, Watercolour, Oils, Pastels and Acrylics. 
  • Conducted Art Workshops for Adult Education Centres at: Reading College, Berkshire, H.M Prison Reading, Berkshire - voluntary rehabilitation work. Surrey Heath Adult Education Centre.
  • Demonstrate the use of Watercolour, Oils, Pastels, Charcoal, Acrylic and Tempera to numerous Art Societies.
  • Paint commissioned Portraits
  • Exhibit at:

- Chalk Farm Galleries London 
- Christies, London 
- Central Gallery, Henley
- Borth Gallery North Wales
- Sissons Gallery, Thirsk North Yorkshire
- Holm Grange Gallery, Wokingham
- Dragons Gallery, Peterfield Hants 
- G F Watts Gallery, Compton Surrey


  • Organised, directed and taught at own Painting and Drawing School at Pound Farm, Ash Green, Surrey.

  • Organised Summer Painting Schools in Portugal, North Wales, Sussex, Cornwall, Dorset and France.

  • Commissioned to paint murals in:

    - Potters International Hotel, Aldershot, Hants
    - Royal Berkshire Hotel, Sunningdale
    - Lakeside International Hotel, Frimley 

  • Commissioned to paint murals for the Lord Mayor of London Show

    1979-1982
  • Studied Fine Art at West Surrey College of Art
  • Awarded Bachelor of Arts Degree
  • Won the Canade Prize for Painting 

    1960-1979
  • Freelance Artist:
    - Designed and painted stage scenery for Malcolm Rose, theatrical producer

    1957-1960
  • Freelance Artist and Designer, specializing in exhibition work
  • 1955-1957
  • Service in British Armed Forces- Army 

    1952-1955
  • Commercial Artist at Delta Studios, Foley Street London - Advertising

    1949
  • Won a Scholarship to St Martins School of Art, London (aged 12)