Ray Audain
Watercolor Artist
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      Riding out of California and into Santa Fe, Ray Audain is a transplant with a new way to view the historic "city different".  Ray, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was given his first set of water colors when he was eight.  He attended the Philadelphia College of Art and the Studio School of Art.   Although he never took a course in watercolor, that is what he choose to do in his free time for twenty years while he worked in the artistic side of advertising in   San Francisco.
     Inspired by the buildings and scenery in Santa Fe, Ray's watercolors burst forth in fluid washes accented by splashes of bright colors and negative white spaces to create a delightful composition.  Over the years, Ray has also developed a unique collage portrait form.  His subjects are people he gets to know well, researching their interests and quirks, and then uses their facial features as a scaffold for collage work related to their personalities, preferences, occupations and hobbies.
     Ray has shown most recently on the juried 2001 Fourth Avenue Merchants' Association show in Tucson, Arizona.  In 2000, he showed works in the Zia Arts Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Summer Taos Arts and Crafts Fair.

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