Alan Bray Biography
March 29, 2006

Alan Bray's casein-on-panel landscapes are cool, elegant, and blessedly devoid of prettiness… [They]evoke nature's majesty but drain away its wildness, suggesting something of the poise and repose of Giotto or Mantegna.
-The New Yorker

This is praise that Alan Bray, who has studied and painted the central Maine highlands for more than forty years, comes by honestly. Ironically, it took an extended sojourn in Florence, Italy, to reveal the depth of his bond to his native landscape and to develop an art The New Yorker has described as "mediations on landscape, rather than attempts to open a window on the world."

Alan Bray was born in Waterville, Maine, on January 12, ...