Ed Gray is a London artist whose paintings observe and explore human social interaction in vivid technicolour. He’s like the photographer, Martin Parr with his captures – but whose chosen medium is often acrylic paint, chalk and charcoal on canvas.
His works are snapshots of everyday city life; city from around the globe – New York, Tokyo, Mexico City and Cape Town. However, it’s the London scenes that I love the most; a packed carriage on the Tube, Smithfield Market stallholders, pubs, bookies and ‘the match’.
He attended Wimbledon Art College and then on to Cardiff University where he graduated with a BA Hons degree in Fine Art. He went on complete his PGCE teacher training after which he taught art and design at secondary level in Peckham, South East London.
He now spends his professional time painting, running workshops and undertaking private commissions.
I go out drawing in the streets to find characters to paint. These are real people, real moments in time, depicting the ebb and flow of city life. I aim to celebrate and commemorate these people; to leave a trace of these lives lived with my pen, my charcoal and my paintbrush
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All image credits: ©Ed Gray