Bio

Raymond Jennings is a New Zealand artist currently based in Hamilton. His colourful paintings of NZ house interiors offer us glimpses into New Zealand home and bach lifestyles with native bird life and NZ landscape scenes often appearing through the windows. His still life painting (or "shelf life") suggests warmly nostalgic domestic scenes.

My paintings and drawings are a positive expression of our world in form and colour, motion and character, radiance, and depth, with the energies of universal inspiration.

Raymond’s contemporary oil painting carries a dynamic energy. His virtuoso colour arrangements, light and dark contrast, and strong sense of form and movement combine to offer inviting and lively house interiors. In his work, there is adept attention to spatial dynamics and dimensions coupled with a sense of stylised homeliness. Each room is laid out to draw us in – indeed, we feel as if we could almost step into them.

Born in New Zealand, Raymond has been an artist most of his life. He began painting and exhibiting at the age of twelve. Two years later, his work featured in a nationwide Society of Arts touring exhibition. He also painted a 20m mural inside Kamo High School library, Whangārei, and became a working member of the Northland Society of Arts at the age of fourteen. Raymond studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, graduating in 1975.