Ray Berman

“Why do I paint? I have been influenced by a deep love and appreciation of African music – especially the unique urban jazz I was exposed to when growing up in South Africa. I paint because I can paint. Like a musician can play music. It is my response to being human. It does not need to make sense, because it is a feeling. I communicate by working with form and colour and get joy out of placing paint onto canvas.” His work is represented in private collections in Australia, America, Israel, Eswatini, and South Africa. Ray has studied art, worked as an architect and in advertising and lived in Eswatini since ’66.