Alan Bray Art
American, b. 1946
Alan Bray was born in Waterville, Maine, on January 12, 1946, but he grew up in Monson, a small slate-quarrying town set in the northern reaches of the Appalachians. It was here, hiking and camping with liked-minded childhood friends, that he began to exercise his natural inquisitiveness as a tool for building woods-craft. In these rugged foothills, ever alive with the turning of the seasons yet always plainly bearing the imprint of eons-old geologic upheaval, Bray learned to find his way around in a world of enigmatic signs and divergent trails. Unwittingly, before ever picking up a brush, he developed the sensibilities of a landscape painter by developing sensitivities to the relationships between the living and the ancient land on which life depends.
Later, when Bray decided to study art formally, he enrolled in the Art Institute of Boston, where he first felt the appeal of image-making as a way of understanding the world. Three years of studio work revealed the need for a more traditional approach to the discipline of painting, one informed by the broader range of a liberal education, a revelation that prompted Bray to enroll at the University of Southern Maine, from which he graduated in 1971. While this education was in many ways a success – particularly in the way it engendered literacies in fields outside the fine arts – it was nevertheless incomplete: well-prepared now for the next leg of the journey, Bray traveled to Florence to study at Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts.
Villa Schifanoia, Florence, the Italian Renaissance held many treasures and gave freely to a painter who was now mature enough in his art to receive them. Including a new medium and a new physical structure for his paintings –tempera on panel. The technical challenges of this medium, the necessary adjustments in craft, and the limitations of scale favored, and inspired, someone of a practical as well as a visionary intelligence.
Bray paints in casein, a milk-based tempera that has virtually no drying time. Necessarily, his paintings are technically complex because they consist of thousands of tiny brush strokes, built up in layers, out of which the images – the vision – advance from the foundation of a mirror-smooth, absolute void of white ground. It is a method of painting that follows directly from his method of exploring his subjects.to
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Artist: Alan Bray
First Light, A Misty Morning Sunrise Scene in Maine with a Mountain View
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
In First Light (2024), Alan Bray captures the quiet majesty of dawn over Spencer Pond, Maine. This luminous casein tempera on panel painting (15 x 24 inches) depicts a breathtaking s...
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Fallow, Rustic Farmhouse Landscape Painting in Maine, Autumn Fields, Elm Tree
By Alan Bray
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As the artist states about this painting: "I first photographed this farm because it had one of the last living Elm trees in our area. Most began dying in the 70's and there are very...
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Clearing Off, contemporary Impressionist casein landscape painting
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
Alan Bray’s landscape paintings of his native, central Maine explore the ever-ebbing dynamic between nature and humanity. His paintings capture an asymmetrical pas de deux. Painted with uncompromising precision by his quick-drying casein tempera paint, Bray’s trailheads, shorelines, and vast horizons show evidence of previous human presence as it succumbs to natural growth.
Bray’s stylized scenes center on these afterimages of human interference as well as other natural phenomena. Inundated with detail, nature reclaims swaths of scarred land, fallen trees, and dilapidated structures, returning them to their wild form. Natural phenomena such as wild overgrowth, animal tracks, mysterious forms, bogs, and mist are resplendently captured as homage to the rugged and uninhabited corners of secluded Maine.
Alan Bray builds his landscapes with numerous layers of quick-drying casein tempera. Often used in Italian Renaissance painting...
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Neighbors Snowy branches, bird nests, gnome-like forms casein tempera painting
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
Alan Bray’s Neighbors is a masterful casein tempera painting capturing the quiet beauty of winter. Delicate, snow-covered branches contrast against a crisp blue sky, while two bird n...
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A Whisper Breaks the Silence, A Poetic Wintry Landscape with Soft Blue and White
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
In A Whisper Breaks the Silence (2024), Alan Bray masterfully captures the quiet majesty of a deep winter forest in Maine. This luminous casein tempera on panel painting (15 x 20 inc...
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A Rise, blue and green casein on panel impressionist waterscape painting, 2004
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
Bray has explored a smaller, more demure 8.5 x 11 inch format for two of these casein on panel paintings. When coupled with his rich palette and tightly hatched bed of brushstrokes, ...
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Woodshed Spencer Pond Camps, a Black and White Drawing of a Wood Pile in Forest
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
This original graphite drawing by Alan Bray captures a meticulously stacked woodshed in a tranquil forest setting. With fine detail and precision, Bray’s work evokes the quiet beauty...
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2010s American Realist Alan Bray Art
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Archival Paper, Graphite
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