Ray Atkins

Ray Atkins is a British figurative painter, born in Exeter, Devon, in 1937. He studied at Bromley College of Art and then at the Slade School of Fine Art. He is known above all for large paintings made in situ, over a period of weeks or months. He taught at Bournemouth College of Art from 1965 to 1970, and later at the University of Reading under Claude Rogers and at Epsom School of Art. He then painted in Cornwall and taught at Falmouth School of Art. He is a member of the St Ives School and of the London Group, and moved to France in 2009.