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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> His paintings explore his own inner thoughts both real and imagined and perhaps in doing so he holds up a mirror to our own sensibilities; love compassion lonliness and a reaching out for understanding. Demonstrating a need to find a place of healing of shelter from brutality and cruelty. The work demonstrates Bray’s tiptoeing of the fine line between normality and reason and madness irrationality and fear. The paintings explore the duality of his existence where romantic beauty rubs shoulders with doubt confusion and unease. This adds a powerful sense of conflict to the work. Each picture looks like it needed to be painted and ultimately needs to be seen. Visually Bray’s paintings return to an age of the entwinement of mythology Gods and the spiritual power of nature of magic and mysticism but the paintings are allegorical and are strikingly personal in their narrative and symbolism. Indeed much of the symbolism is recurrent suggesting an ongoing search for resolve that clearly drives the work on. Bray’s conditioning allows him to embrace that which we so often cynically sidestep through living life in the 21st century and in doing so perhaps he allows us to face something unchanging that dwells deep within all of us. (LL)