Raymond Wittenberg
I migrated with my family to Australia 1955, the family settled in Geelong. I lived in Australia ever since.
The creative act is identity and purpose, and as an artist, to create and be creative is discipline to be human.
Painting is a personal discipline to harbour a love for which ever art form we prefer. Marking a surface is a normal human activity. Painting becomes the discipline that enables an individual to harness and create the best expression for whatever culture is in this moment, or the next.
To my painting students here in Hobart I emphasis energy as much as making the art because art is primarily emotion and emotion matched to experience becomes creativity when our collective energy is culture, in the classroom or in the broader environment we receive the good fortune art bestows on one and all.
I’m a senior with a lifetime of creativity holding both a diploma in visual arts at Prahran college, Melbourne and lately a Bachelor's Degree at UTAS, book marking a forty years career in every conceivable artistic field from theatre and cultural design to studio work and illustration, and recently promoting and assisting art in education, regularly curating art exhibits by professionals and school children alike.
For decades I attended in life drawing at TAP Gallery Darlinghurst where I exhibited paintings regularly .
A move to Hobart and I continue to paint and show locally. I I continue to work and also teach as a privately in Hobart.
