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At sunset, the sky lit up and photos were taken from the beach on Hunting Island and then, as mysteriously as the moment of light and drama had arrived, it was all over. The photos came out and provided references for several paintings I have done based on those few moments on the beach at the end of a sultry but pleasant day. What a beautiful place.

Dwain Ray grew up in Southern California and was introduced to painting at an early age by his artist mother. He went on to an international business career that involved years of interesting foreign travel on a global basis, eventually focusing largely on China and the Far East. He and his family lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brussels, Oregon, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Since 1999 he has lived and painted in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. He studied art at the College of Charleston for several years and received additional training from a number of noted Lowcountry painters. Dwain’s uninhibited love of color and the richness of oil painting media is consistently evident in his art. His paintings generally...