Jay Ray Art United Kingdom
Jay has exhibited her fine art work in commercial galleries, museums, artist-led shows, activist events, and has also curated site-specific installations in unconventional locations. National exhibitions include the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Threadneedle Figurative Prize, and 'Save Our Placards' at the Museum of London.
Working within the genres of landscape and the figurative in drawing and painting media, themes of 'disconnection' and 'urbanisation' recur through my fine art practice.
In my drawing works, I utilise delicate materials that lend an ephemeral quality such as tracing paper, layering mixed media fragments together with tape and staples. This approach could reference transience or impermanence, and references both internal and external landscapes.
My painting practice is inspired by living in an urban environment. I take photographs of urban streets at night, as reference point for painting works that explore abstract and semi abstract forms, using geometric angles, vivid acid colours, and expressive brushstrokes.
