Lance Gray
Acrylic Painter, St. Augustine, FL
Lance Gray entered college at age 30 on the G.I. Bill and graduated with a Commercial Art degree from the State University of New York. He spent the next 15 years working in advertising, printing and in the newspaper business.
“The desire to paint Fine Art, however, was in my heart, so my wife and I went in search of inspiration. Selling everything, we bought an old sailboat and travelled throughout Florida in search of a new life. We found that life in – of all places – a rough and tumble commercial shrimp dock. I worked as a manual laborer there, unloading boats for 10 years.
It was a Steinbeck novel come to life – full of hope and tragedy and the drive to overcome great odds by a tough, self-sufficient group of working people that I came to love and admire. These people gave me the great gift of inspiration for my art, which will always be dedicated to their tireless spirit to persevere.
