Ed Gray

Ed Gray graduated from a Fine Art degree in 1995 and after a series of jobs to fund his desire to continue drawing and painting he trained to be a school teacher and taught art and design at a Peckham secondary school for four years. Increasingly Grays work was becoming commercially successful at home and abroad. In 2001 Ed Gray was awarded a sabbatical from his successful career as an art teacher to complete a Fellowship residency for the Masterworks Foundation of Bermuda, a museum whose collection houses work by Winslow Homer, Georgia OKeefe.
This experience led Gray to leave his teaching career and he has worked as a professional artist ever since. Primarily a painter of London, his birthplace, and inspired by artists such as Hogarth and Breughl and the Tintin cartoons of Herge that he loved as a boy, Gray has recently relocated to New York, Mexico and Tokyo to depict life in these cities.

I go out drawing in the streets to find characters to paint. These are real people, real moments in time, real depictions of the ebb and flow of city life. I aim to celebrate and commemorate these people; to leave a trace of these lives lived with my pen, my charcoal and my paintbrush.

In 2009 Gray was chosen to represent En...

Ed Gray
Artist, educator, figurative/landscape drawing and painting,
mural painter, printmaker, sculptor.

Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Time out of mind, GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5

2008 Transmetropolitan, GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5

2007 Glitter and Grime, GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5

2006 Fairytales of New York, Lullabies of London, GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5

2005 20,000 Streets Under the Sky- A London Odyssey, GX Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5

2004 London Calling: Great Expectations Gallery, 43 Denmark Hill, London SE5

2003 Post Nostalgia Gallery 21 Teddington High St, Middlesex

2003 Recent Paintings: The Sun and Doves, 61-63 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5

2001 Front St Gallery, Bermuda Dockyard Gallery, Bermuda

2001 Brixton and Beyond: Fleart Gallery, Brixton 2001

Group Exhibitions
2003 Life in the City: Wills Art Warehouse, 3 Heathmans Row, London

2003 Desmond Fountain Gallery, Bermuda,

2003 Dockyard Arts Centre, Bermuda

1996 Glebe Gallery Baltimore, Ireland

Residencies
2001 International Artist in Residence Masterworks Foundation, Bermuda,

1999 St Mary Magdalen Primary School Broc...