CALL OF THE WILD
Painter and printmaker Raymond Arnold’s earliest memories involve his father with a sable-tipped paintbrush in his hand. “He was a beautiful man, a talented signwriter who ended up as a specialist in horse-drawn vehicles,” Raymond recalls. “So I grew up surrounded by an artistic sensibility, but it wasn’t until I was about 14 that a friend of his, who had been a Changi POW [prisoner of war], gave me a set of oils and I found art for myself. It gave me a sense of self-esteem that carries you through life.”
From his childhood in bayside Melbourne, Raymond went on to study art education and became a
