"My aim is to emotionally connect with the viewer through my work, 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"
Award-winning artist Douglas Gray was born in Harrogate in 1965 and began his professional artistic career in the study of illustration achieving significant success working with clients such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Warner Brothers, as well as illustrating book covers for Jackie Collins and other popular authors.
His transition into painting was a natural progression for his talent, with oil paint as his medium of choice in creating light, mood and atmosphere in all his works. His attraction to figurative subjects enables him to portray human nature in all its emotional complexities, and also to create that same sense of atmosphere, place and time in his paintings of iconic cityscapes.
Douglas is represented internationally with galleries in London, USA, Paris and Amsterdam and holds an impressive history of important exhibitions and solo shows. He has been the recipient of several prestigious painting awards and the subject of many magazine features. Regularly commissioned by interior designers his private commissions include the illustrious Savoy Hotel in London where his painting 'Cloudbreak, River Thames' is on permanent display in the hotel's renowned River Room.