Botany Bay Afternoon Painting

Dwain Ray grew up in Southern California. He enjoyed an international business career that required years of interesting foreign travel on a global basis, eventually focusing largely on China and the Far East. He and his family lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brussels, Oregon, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Since 1999 he has lived and painted in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina across the harbor from Charleston Dwain's uninhibited love of color and the richness of oil painting media is consistently evident in his art. His paintings generally focus on coastal South Carolina Low Country subject matter but also range into a variety of subjects that catch his fancy from time to time. Although he will often partially abstract or stylize his paintings, all of his work is representational. However, he enjoys making major departures from realism with unconventional and contemporary choices of colors, techniques and compositions. The artist leans towards impressionistic painting styles, often employing divisionistic brush strokes and pointillist color fabrication techniques. He seeks experimentation, risk, fun and adventure on every canvas and rejects pressures to treat art as a commodity. He is an exhibiting member of the Charleston Artist Guild. His work is frequently seen in Low Country juried art shows and is held in private collections across the USA.
Website: dwainray.com