Don Gray paintings

Acrylic paintings. "This acrylic still-life painting features goose and chicken eggs laid by our fowl. I canned the tomatoes and string beans from our garden. Again, the objects were selected instinctively by color, form and the feeling they gave me. Like all of the objects in my still-lifes, they seemed 'right.' That includes such obvious items as the grapefruit and sweet potato, but also the pink plastic container of dishwashing liquid. Clearly, color is important in the process of selection and painting…red, green, pink, orange, yellow; but also the shapes. The dishwashing liquid has a white cap 'head' and 'shoulders' that relate to the human form. A professor of mine once pointed out that the still-life clusters of bottles and other containers painted by 20th Century artist Giorgio Morandi, were in fact symbolic 'families.' The same might be said about this still-life."