Ray Armstrong

Los Angeles based mixed media artist, Ray Armstrong, draws inspiration from the visual language of Southern California. Its expansive beaches, shifting light, rugged landscapes, and the weathered textures of the urban environment - Concrete, stucco, aging facades, architectural fragments, sand, stone, and ocean horizons all become points of departure for an intuitive exploration of surface and form.

The artist explores the possibilities of texture, abstraction, and landscape. With a minor in color theory studies and a professional career as a psychotherapist, he approaches painting as both a creative counterpoint to his daily work and a space for intuition, reflection, and play. His heavily textured surfaces and layered compositions suggest landscapes without attempting to reproduce them. Rejecting realism, the artist allows form, color, and material to remain open to interpretation, inviting the viewer to construct their own meaning. His work is ultimately concerned with beauty, atmosphere, and the experience of looking. Created outside the traditional boundaries of a professional art practice, the paintings emerge from a genuine desire to explore, experiment, and create something visually compelling. The work asks nothing of the...

EWU - B.A -Applied Psychology & minor in painting theory
Antioch University -MA -Clinical Psychology
Ryokan University -Psy.D -Clinical Psychology