A serious student of art since childhood, Raymond King was apprenticed to noted Florida artist, Michael Puiggi, at the early age of nine. Raymond King later studied at the New England Institute of Art and the Boston Museum School of Art.

After studies with such notable American artists as MacIvor Reddy, Philip Hicken, and R. H. Ives Gammell, Mr. King, spent three productive years in Rome as recipient of a private painting fellowship allowing him to further develop his unique painting style.

Originally, Raymond King was drawn to the Renaissance technique of creating an illusion of realism by gradually building up the forms of a painting through successive applications of oil glazes in thin layers with opaque colors added in the final stages of the process.

Over the course of an exciting, yet often tumultuous, thirty-year period, Mr. King expanded on this layering technique to develop his own distinctive impressionistic style using palette knives [rather than brushes] and layers of pure color. These layers are built up until they achieve a tangible as well as a pictorial rendering of light and shadow, with a distinct and vivid impasto quality.

Mr. King’s first major exhibition was at the prestigious Copley Society of Boston, America’s oldest ongoing arts society. Many solo and group exhibitions followed over the next 30 years in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Cincinnati, and Chicago, as well as many other locations.

Awards include finalist status in the 1991 painting competition for American Artist’s Magazine, the K. Phillips Prize for Contemporary Landscape Art in both 1996 and 2003, and various awards through the Massachusetts Council of the Arts.