Having got to know Ray, and his work, over the last couple of years, I still marvel at his talent. With almost random marks of colour, he builds a complex layering of paint that up close looks lively and free and completely abstract. But step back and suddenly you are in a landscape which rises and falls, is populated with trees, meadows, paths and hillsides, all quite solid and real. And when you know the landscapes he's describing, then the sense of place is all the more tangible.
The only issue I have with the current show is that the gallery is small, and most of Ray's work is huge, and really needs to be seen from a distance. In some cases, it's just not possible to get far enough away from the works to really take them in.
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