Comments on: Ed Gray, Painter

By: Ellie Ling

Ellie Ling — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 08:42:01 +0000

Brilliant paintings which capture the huge variety of London lives crowded into streets and markets, with all the energy, emotions, excitement, gloom……. it’s all there. As an artist myself who spent many hours in the life room drawing people, and who still loves “people-watching”, I can really appreciate the way he’s captured all the nuances of different people’s behaviour and the way their body language tells the viewer so much about what they’re feeling. He’s very very good at it! And that comes partly from his talent and partly from the hours he’s spent out there in the streets with his sketchbooks…….His work should be remembered in years to come along with artists such as Stanley Spencer and Hogarth for bringing the streets of the London of his time to life with such a distinctive resonance.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 08:03:08 +0000

Absolutely wonderful pictures, and so pleased that Ed kept faith in himself.

By: Carolyn Hooper

Carolyn Hooper — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 07:19:36 +0000

What magnificent work!! I love the way Ed captures his city with its crowds and buildings behind. Let’s face it, to paint crowds in most large cities, it can’t be done without buildings as a backdrop. Unless you find a park which is very crowded.

Lovely, gentle author…..as usual.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:13:23 +0000

I love these, especially the one of Mile End station. It captures the hustle and bustle of entering and leaving, just as I remember it when I was at Queen Mary College in the early to mid 90s.

Blackfriars Bridge – I worked at a gallery on Bankside for a while in the late 90s and how I hated walking over the bridge when it was really windy. I used to stay close to the edge of the pavement as I was always convinced I’d be blown into the Thames!

By: bronwen

bronwen — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:14:56 +0000

Thank you for sharing this amazing artist – such brilliant work.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:08:31 +0000

Such an amazing body of work!
Absolutely vibrant colours and images.
Thank you GA for sharing and introducing us to Ed’s images of London.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:41:24 +0000

Thanks for all this!

Quite a painter, Ed Gray! And, to my outsider eyes, so quintessentially English, so in line with tradition, but with a twist: In a tradition of Stanley Spencer, yet urban and of a different spiritual intensity. These evident pulsations and pulluations of modern street life are substantiations of the larger, spiritual life that underlies all. Eric Ravilious, who underlies so much of modern English sensibility.

Please don’t imagine I find Gray’s work to be derivative. NOT AT ALL. It’s the marching forward of a native impulse, found in Thomas Berwick and Samuel Palmer and probably receding into the misty pasts of your history.

By: Ed Gray

Ed Gray — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:31:57 +0000

Thank you Gentle Author and all these kind people for their wonderful comments. It’s a great encouragement to me to keep making this work to celebrate the city of London and the idea of the city as a place of layered stories, chance, coincidence and all the overlapping rhthyms of life within.

By: Kelly Holman

Kelly Holman — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:56:43 +0000

What wonderful vibrant work, it’s such a pleasure to view it. Thank you.

By: Laura Williamson

Laura Williamson — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:38:04 +0000

Vibrant, wonderful art. The everyday drama and wry honesty of Hogarth, I think. Thanks so much for this GA and thanks Ed, look forward to seeing much more.