Jay Raymond Art

I submitted a painting and was accepted into a show at the Franklin Arts Center in Brainerd, MN. The opening is June 4, and the exhibit features 36 artists. I'll post a photo of my piece after the opening. If you'd like to attend the artist's reception, please RSVP by May 27th.

Sometimes I find myself looking back at old work I haven't laid my eyes on for a while. When we moved into our house and placed all of our art storage items and materials in the studio, I found some pieces I had forgotten about. Looking at my own artwork critically allows me to rediscover themes that have interested me in the past and that still hold importance for one reason or another. I found myself studying the surfaces of some of the paintings and becoming re-inspired to utilize the techniques in my new work. For some reason I seem to eventually migrate in a painting to creating texture in the material itself. I like my images to contain an organic quality if I can succeed in producing it. I would like the painting to feel as though it naturally emerged out of the surface through some natural process outside of my control, as if lichen and earth had materialized on their own and self-organized into an image. These are some figurative paintings that are tiny acrylic stud...