Ray Darnell

Mountainair, NM applewoodmtn@gmail.com ray@maeroadartgallery.com www.maeroadartgallery.com

Ray Darnell loves “creative accidents.” He explores various media to achieve new, often unexpected results. “Chance results” lead him to creations that are exciting and different.

The challenge becomes recreating that chance result in order to understand it and control it. That’s how Darnell lives and creates his art—sometimes wild, sometimes untamed, often with an ending that is different than the original idea.

In his paintings, Darnell’s strength is capturing natural movement. He’s currently working on his new series involving movement in both people and animals, combined with landscape backgrounds. His motto has always been, “Be creative in all that you do.”

Darnell was raised in rural New

Mexico. It was up to him to create his own entertainment and toys before our world was so focused on being “plugged in.” He’s grateful to have grown up this way so his creative instincts could soar and ingrain a love of the Southwest in his work.