Claire is a California based artist known for her captivating and dream-like landscape and skycape paintings. With a unique ability to capture the essence of earths tranquility, Claire’s artworks transport viewers into a realm where reality blends with imagination. Divining inspiration from the out-of-doors and the out-of-mind, her work is at once energetic and soothing; creating a dream-like atmosphere both rich and clean. Primarily working in watercolor, ink and oil paint her practice is purposeful and calculated.

Claire Ray resides in Grass Valley, California and works out of her on-site home studio surrounded by tall oaks, pine trees and the gardens she tends with her husband and two children. Her admiration for her natural surroundings began early, spending her childhood in the mist and high grasses of the Central Coast in California. Her work is profoundly influenced by both of these landscapes, and others, like the human body, the passage of time and the expanse of the sky. Artistically nurtured from a young age she embraced visual art as a foundation for her academic pursuits both at University of California, Santa Cruz and later while earning a degree in Landscape Architecture at University of California, Davis.

Activity

Solo Art Exhibitions

  • Gathering Grounds, Patagonia AZ, Oct. 2019

  • KITKITDIZZI Nevada City CA, August 4th 2017 Art Walk

  • Safehouse San Francisco CA, June 2017

  • Lightning in a Bottle, Bradley CA, May 2017

  • Gitane Freedom of Style Menlo Park CA, April-June 2017

  • The Safehouse San Francisco CA, August 1st 2015

  • Delta of Venus, Davis CA, May 2015

  • Ridge Cafe, North San Juan CA, January 2015

  • Stonehouse Old Brewery, Nevada City CA, November 2014

  • ClouD Nine Performance and Community Space Berkeley CA, May 2013

Collective Art Exhibitions

  • Textures, Patterns, Shapes & Forms, Las Laguna Art Gallery, August 2021

  • 11th Annual “Landscapes” Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, July 2021

  • ALL Abstraction, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, July 2021

  • Skies Exhibition, Art Room Gallery Online, July 2021

  • 3rd Annual Lines, Shapes & Objects, Online Exhibition Fusion Art, July 2021

  • Artistonish Magazine, June 2021

  • Arizona Aqueous XXXIV, Tubac AZ, Oct. 2019

  • We Live Here Now, Tucson International Airport AZ, Oct. 2019

  • The Bird’s Nest Gallery, Aspen CO, Dec. 2017

  • Artifact Art Gallery, Miami FL, Dec. 2017

  • Who Is She? 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA, September 13th 2017

  • CURATE Bay Area Female Artist, San Francisco CA, June 2017

  • Winter Craft Fair at Miners Foundry, Nevada City CA, Dec. 2014

  • A.I.R. & ADORE Gallery, San Francisco CA, Nov. 2014

  • Carport Gallery, Guerneville CA, October 2014

Murals

  • SafeHouse, San Francisco CA, May-July 2015

  • Tahiti, French Polynesia, April 2015

  • Placerville CA, December 2014

  • Berkeley CA, April 2014

  • Oakland CA, July 2013

  • Grass Valley CA, January 2011