Painter, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, who gained an honours degree at Maidstone College of Art, 1985–9; a teaching certificate at Bristol University, 1990–1; and his master’s at the Royal College of Art, 1995–7. Awards included a Travel Award to Asilah Studios, Morocco, 1995; Studio Award, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 1996; TI Group Travel Scholarship, New York, America, 1997; and an Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award, 1998. Rayson’s pictures were “all of real places painted and drawn from memory.” His acrylic on board From Ashmore Park to Wednesfield: The Linthouse Bridge, of 1998, was included in East International at Norwich School of Art & Design, 1999, the year Rayson’s work appeared in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition.