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From Southwark News: Galleries & Listings THE SECRET SIGNS WHICH ARE HIDDEN IN PAINTINGS 20 June 2008 By Michael Holland I AM STILL pondering the genius of artist Ed Gray and the talk he gave at the GX Gallery. He had us all enthralled as he told of the various – often secret – symbols […]

Ed Gray Art Christmas Cards Ed Gray Art Christmas Greetings Cards A5 pack of 10 Xmas Greetings Cards with scenes from paintings of London life in winter time

Departure ‘Freedom is the one thing that matters – it is the departure, the new start.’ Those words were written by Max Beckmann, who was born in Leipzig on this day February 12th 1884 in reference to his 1932 triptych Departure which can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art New York. Beckmann’s early […]

  ‘As long as I live I will have control over my being’ Artemisia Gentileschi  Head Count Heads bob, set off starkly against blue gallery walls. White heads, white skin, grey hair, white hair, ears pinned forward by tight elastic, eyes squinting, peering at paint made into young luminescent flesh and too-small gallery labels as […]

If Hogarth were alive he would be 323 years old today. If the pubs were open I would surely be raising a glass to the greatest painter I know. Hogarth was the first Modernist artist, a man who left us stories that are as insightful about his own time as they are about our own.  […]

  Dimensions: 160x120cm Media: Acrylic paint, chalk, charcoal, glitter on canvas Year: 2020 Sold: Yes Ode to Torsion ‘Torsion’ definitions: The action of twisting or the state of being twisted, especially of one end of an object relative to the other The twisting of the cut end of an artery after surgery to impede bleeding The […]

‘Harlem Shuffle’ Lenox Av and Malcom X Boulevard 2006 Boulevard of broken dreams  This week I wanted to shine a light on a painting I made in 2006 after a drawing trip to the streets of Harlem NYC. Several things made me think of this painting. I was reminded that May 19th is the birthday […]

Philip Guston ‘Arm’ 1979 Oil on canvas 121.9 x 152.4 cm   ‘My whole life seems just a long falling’ John Updike from ‘Couples’ 1968   Frozen Frieze Art Fair 2019 Regent’s Park London and one painting sucks in the air around it, drawing you in, freezing you as you stand before it. Whose arm is […]

Sir John Soane: Georgian Space Explorer and Time Traveller My favourite room in London is a small well-lit panelled Georgian Picture Room at the back of an architect’s house in Lincoln’s Inn Felds. The architect was Sir John Soane  1753-1837 (portrait below) and the room is in his home which is now a wonderful museum […]

‘The Taking of Christ’  by Caravaggio Born: 29 September 1571, Milan, Italy Died: 18 July 1610, Porto Ercole, Italy National Gallery  Dublin Action: Judas identifies Jesus to the authorities with a kiss. Caravaggio puts himself in the picture, far right side stepping into the scene, joining the action at the same moment that we walk up- he’s a witness to […]

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When you get a call from someone who gets a call from the Modfather and they make you an offer you can’t refuse…… I was in Sweden when Monomedia Films asked me if I was interested in making a painting as a video for a track from the new Paul Weller album ‘True Meanings’. My […]

Limited edition print on paper or canvas of Lenox Avenue and Malcom X Boulevard in Harlem New York NYC

Full colour 60 page catalogue of city paintings from 2008-2014 including a foreword by Robert Elms, essays, paintings, drawings, sketches, and photos from London, Mexico, New York, LA, San Francisco, Cape Town,Tokyo and Bangkok

ISBN 978-0-9555879-1-7

Foreword by journalist and author Robert Elms

‘…….The real magic of Ed Gray’s work is that he doesn’t seek to tame the city. He doesn’t freeze the teeming streets, but unleashes all their kinetic wonder. These are not still lives, but motion pictures. And if Ed paints movies, to me they are musicals; buzzing with jazz and the glorious accidental choreography of crowds’   

Dimensions: 160x120xcm Year: 2009 Media: Acrylic paint, chalk and charcoal on canvas Sold: Yes Description: Late night Churros and hot chocolate at the Churreria El Moro on Lázaro Cárdenas Street. A waitress takes another order as an elderly lady sits in a chocolate reverie. A stray Mariachi strums at a nearby table and the chocolate […]

Dimensions: 130x94cm Media: Acrylic paint, chalk, charcoal on board Year: 2014 Sold: Yes         A painting of a crowd of Arsenal football fans on a matchday outside Arsenal Football Club Emirates Stadium in Hornsey Road London N7. The painting has many references to the history of Arsenal Football Club and is inspired […]

Solo Exhibitions 2023 Scenes of Innocence And Experience House Of Annetta 25 Princelet Street Spitalfields E1 2022 Everybody Loves The Sunshine Parliament Hill Fields Lido Cafe NW5 2018 The Passing Show: New Adoration Paintings of London St-Martin-In-The Fields Crypt Gallery WC2N 2016 Londonessence: Dust and Shadows Rich Mix Arts Centre Shoreditch/ GX Gallery 2015 Metropolitan […]

Boutcher School Mural 1.5M x 9M by Years 4,5,6 St Mary Magdalen Mural Peckham 2016 Year 5 Enquire about booking Ed Gray here info@edgrayart.com for workshops, talks and events Art is central to my love and appreciation of life. I’ve been lucky enough to work in arts education for 27 years, initially as a volunteer […]

Events in 2020 Ed will be exhibiting new London paintings in 2020. Details will be posted next year. He will also be collaborating with Monks Road Social on a new project Goodwill to all Cityphiles Ed is offering a seasonal discount of free delivery on all limited edition prints in the Shop featuring city scenes […]

Education London artist Ed Gray studied at Wimbledon Art College and Cardiff University of Wales graduating with a BA Hons degree in Fine Art in 1995. Aided by a grant from the Prince’s Trust Ed worked at various jobs in the city to fund his desire to continue painting from a squat in Elephant and […]

Painter of London Life Ed Gray in the Urban Activist February 2024 ‘Viewers of Gray’s work start with the tiny circle of their own experience, but gradually through his paintings they acquire more expansive ways of seeing around us and understanding each other. Market forces might have outpaced a democratic form of development in our […]

June 2018 ‘…buzzing with jazz and the glorious accidental choreography of crowds’ Robert Elms BBC London ‘…a life affirming raucous celebration of the indefatigable vitality of Londoners’ Spitalfields Life ​GX GALLERY 22 MAY – 14 JUNE 2018 open 10-5pm Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat Event: Thursday 6 June 6.30pm- 8pm GX Gallery 43 Denmark Hill […]

Press Release ‘Floating Worlds: Paintings from Mexico, New York, Tokyo, Bangkok and London’ Ed Gray @Zari Gallery 8-28 April 2016 73 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EJ. Tel: + 44 207 6373544. Email: info@zarigallery.co.uk … http://www.zarigallery.co.uk/event/ This exhibition chronicles the most important period of development for my artistic practice – a time when I began to […]

PRESS RELEASE London’s Brilliant Parade: ​New limited edition London prints by Ed Gray Ed Gray’s gritty contemporary paintings of London Life revel in the people, places and mythology of the city. A drifter and a rover at heart, Gray fills his intense paintings with images recalled from his urban sketches. This exhibition will feature highly […]

Press Release Ed Gray: First resident artist at Viking Gallery, Margate as part of new partnership with GX Gallery, London. ‘Metropolitan Drift: Paintings of London Life’ The Viking Gallery, Viking House, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 2AH Opening Times: Thursday to Sunday (12 – 6pm) Exhibition: 16 – 31 May 2015 Open Afternoon: Saturday 16 May 2 […]

Top Of the World Ma! Painter of the streets –London Artist Ed Gray @ Searcys at the Gherkin “Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.” – John […]

Mind Out Of Time Cape Town, Mexico City, Thailand, New York, London To be opened by Simon Hughes MP Tuesday 8 June 7pm, Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey A short film of a year in Ed Gray’s work, exhibitions, travels and experiences by journalist and film-maker Michael Holland, will be screened at Shortwave Cinema,10 Bermondsey Square, SE1 […]

Four Perspectives of London London & Londoners “Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the […]

From Living South: Shades of Gray From Peckham school teacher to internationally renowned artist, Ed Gray gets around. His latest exhibition, Time Out Of Mind: Painting and drawings from the floating world, sees him travel farther afield to the likes of Thailand, Japan and Mexico searching for the soul of the city. Living South quizzes […]

The GX Gallery Newsletter Another Mexico: Reflections on a forthcoming exhibition by Ed Gray January 2009 I am standing sketching in the square drawing the widest tree in the world, a 3000 year old Cypress, in a town called El Tule (The Tule Tree) in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, lost in the […]

From Southwark News: Galleries & Listings LONDON ACCORDING TO GREY 16 May 2008 By Michael Holland It was a hot Friday as I stepped off a Southwark street straight into a Mayfair art gallery. It was like going backwards on a Monopoly board from Old Kent Road. But this was not Mayfair, this was the […]

From Southwark News: Galleries & Listings GRAY OVER LONDON 21 April 2008 By Michael Holland I have been a huge fan of Ed Gray’s art since I first set eyes on his work about five years ago at his Sun & Doves exhibition. I liked it even more when I found that he lived in […]