Ray Phillips
Ray Phillips has been an artist all his life.
From the early years of endless drawing, his mother, recognizing his artistic passion, sacrificed, supported and encouraged him to take advantage of his talents and enrolled him in the Glassell School of Art (then called the Museum of Fine Art School).
His later years found him experiencing much acclaimed success as a professional musician and more recently, in the digital graphics industry.
But it has now come full circle. Painting, and the visual arts, has indeed become the last and true ideology for living his life.
It is all these artistic endeavors throughout his life that now translate into his work. His highly sought after paintings exhibit the depth, layering, texture and composition that can only come from someone who strives for perfection, one who believes "enough is never enough".
Phillips describes his passion: "Each piece is like a series of small battles, something to overcome in the constant mission to please myself. The creative process is sometimes very exhausting, unlike some peoples interpretation that it"s all therapeutic and ideas just fly onto the canvas."
He adds, "often after finishing a piece I feel completely spent."