Artist's Palette

Machinery Mindset

Ray Cassidy lives and works at Strathdale (Bendigo) in Victoria. He was born in Melbourne. Gisborne was the town where he spent his youth – before he started work in 1960.

This richly talented man got back into drawing quite by chance when sketching with his daughter Rhiannon one wet day. He started again ‘in serious mode’ in 1996.

“I did not draw between 2000 and 2007 due to an accident at work;

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