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Strangely beautiful yet strangely unsettling paintings of terrifying mutants and monsters

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Meet Dusty Ray.  Painting contractor by day, artist by night.  Ray draws images of strange, dream-like creatures and fantastic animals that creep into his imagination while his mind is busy working on other things.  "Ray describes himself as a purveyor of surreal illustrations and dark art for the eccentric but discerning client who has a touch of the uncanny in his life."  “The strange monstrosities I paint come from my perception of the animals around me and the way my mind interprets their sacred, non-sensory position in the natural world.” His paintings give me the feeling of an artist copying some very important message from a dream or nightmare, the meaning of which has become ambiguous upon waking and only the feeling of menacing fear remains)  .  Ray is also a musician and writer who graduated in English from Colorado State University.  He filters some of his literary ideas into his paintings, which he produces in watercolour, gouache, India ink, micron and acrylic.  His works range from dissected animal heads to strange, unnamable figures that lurk, move, and shape-shift, out of the wooded landscape around his home in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Ray's works are for sale here...