Ray's ability to walk the land and shore is increasingly curtailed by arthritis.  His paintings are now mostly made in the studio and on a smaller scale than before. 

Contrarily, this is not a limitation but a liberation as it enforces a separation from the actuality of the subject.  Ray's work is increasingly introspective, drawing more from memory and recalled emotion: the distillation of the complexity of reality to an essence, leading to an intensity he feels is more in tune with the spirituality of the land, sea and light of Wales.

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