My father, Ray Burgoyne, who has died aged 80, was a painter, carpenter and musician. He first exhibited his paintings in the late 1980s, and spent the next 30 years organising countless exhibitions across the Essex and Suffolk coastline.
Ray was self-taught and arrived in the art world with a seemingly fully realised, studied vision. The extensive body of work he produced mirrored the abstract ballad that was his life – romantic, unpredictable, filled with both childlike simplicity and dark complexity, featuring carnivalesque characters, forgotten landscapes, and painted in pure, deep colours.
