Award-winning British figurative artist
Douglas Gray's painting style reflects his background in illustration, exhibiting the artist's solid foundations in drawing and developed narrative. The artist enjoys layering his pictures with visual complexity, like his signature window panes reflecting a strong amount of detail from the outside world over top of a figure sat within an equally detailed interior scene. Gray has become known for this incredible ability to synthesize vision, thought and emotion simultaneously into a single painted image, all the while keeping viewers guessing at the full story behind each scenario.
‘My aim is to emotionally connect with the viewer through my work’ Douglas says, ‘whether they be happy, melancholic or even sad, as human beings we all experience these timeless emotions and I hope my paintings ignite people’s imagination and evoke their own personal memories’.
Douglas’s ownership of light, atmosphere, place and visual narrative all add up to truly memorable paintings which endorse his ever growing number of collectors worldwide.
Exhibitions
2019 "Small Wonders" Group exhibition, Thompsons Galleries, London
2019 Walker Galleries, Harrogate, Solo Show
2019 RSMA Mall Galleries, London
2019 Thompsons Gallery, London Solo Show
2018 Waterhouse Gallery ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
2018 RSMA Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2018 Thompsons Gallery London "Metropolis"
2017 Walker Galleries, Harrogate, Solo Show
2017 Thompson's Gallery, Seymour Place, London (2 man show)
2016 Douglas Gray Fine Art The Gallery Yorkshire Wolds SOLO SHOW
2015 Chickabee Art Galleries Belgium Group show
2015 Walker Galleries Harrogate (2 man Show)
2015 RSMA Exhibition Mall Galleries London
2015 Morren Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Galerie Anagama, Versailles. Paris (2 man show)
2015 Realism Art Fair, Amsterdam
2014 Thompson's Gallery, London, Solo Show
2014 RSMA, London
2013 RSMA, London
2013 Thompsons Gallery, London, Group Show
2012 Whittington Fine Art ,Henley-on-Thames
2012 RSMA, London
2011 John Noott Gallery, Broadway
2011 W H Patterson, London, 'Venice in Peril'
2010 RSMA, London
2010 John Noott Gallery, Broadway - Solo Show
2010 Oakham Contemporary, London - 'The Figurative Show'
Collections
Savoy Hotel
Lord Hague
General Electric Co
George Davies Asda Group
Fairmont Group
Lord Derwent
Universal Studios
Jackie Collins
Howard de Walden
Nat West Bank
Saatchi & Saatchi
Hodder Headline
