Danna Ray is a painter from Western North Carolina. Working on location and from her studio deep in the woods of the Black Mountains of North Carolina, Ray creates landscapes using gestural marks to find immediacy and connection with her surroundings.

Collection title: "Habitat"
In this series, I view the natural world through the lens of habitat, studying the ways that continuously changing landscapes can support webs of life while searching for a visual response to connect wild and human spaces