Ray Leech was born at Great Yarmouth in 1949 and now lives at Oulton Broad, Lowestoft. He studied Art and Design at the Great Yarmouth College of Art and besides painting, he is a partner in a design illustration studio in Norwich.
 

In 1986 he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries in London, at which he won the Charles Pears prize for the best non-member’s work. The following year he was elected a full member of the RSMA.

He exhibits regularly in the USA and London, and on two occasions has been a finalist in the Hunting Group painting awards.

He has received numerous commissions from various sources, notably the Sultan of Oman.

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