Gale Ray is an award-winning fine artist. After 34 years as a tapestry weaver, 15 years as a faux finisher, a lifetime of painting, Gale’s most recent work focuses on hand building pottery.
She currently maintains a studio in Charleston, SC where she works and shows her art. Her subject matter includes coastal landscape, coastal images and one-of-a-kind hand-built pottery vessels inspired by the land and the sea.
“As I look back over my life as an artist, I have come to realize that no matter what I’m working with, it becomes a way of painting. Whether I’m weaving, constructing a 3-dimensional tapestry, creating a faux finish, painting or hand building pottery... I’m always painting."
"I view myself as an artist with a painter's eye and many different hands; a weaver, a faux finisher, a painter and a potter."
GALLERIES AND SHOWS
She currently maintains a studio in Charleston, SC where she works and shows her art. Her subject matter includes coastal landscape, coastal images and one-of-a-kind hand-built pottery vessels inspired by the land and the sea.
“As I look back over my life as an artist, I have come to realize that no matter what I’m working with, it becomes a way of painting. Whether I’m weaving, constructing a 3-dimensional tapestry, creating a faux finish, painting or hand building pottery... I’m always painting."
"I view myself as an artist with a painter's eye and many different hands; a weaver, a faux finisher, a painter and a potter."
GALLERIES AND SHOWS
- Nina Liu and Friends
- Smithsonian Craft Show
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
- American Craft Expo
- “American Craft Council” Craft Shows
- Ann Arbor, Winter Park, Coral Gables and Piedmont Park
- Northwest Airlines World Club
- The Medical University of South Carolina
- Trident Technical College
- Her weavings have been collected throughout the US and Europe.
- Charleston Home and Design
- Better Homes and Garden’s Window and Wall Ideas
- “Cosmopolitan Style” by Susan Sully
- BA University of Mississippi
- MFA Savannah College of Art and Design
- Low Country Ceramic Artists
- Ready Glaze Fire
- SC Artisans Center
- Keepsakes Museum Store
