Lynn Ray

Tablescapes

Close the door against
the heat, the cold, the drama,
have a cup of tea.

Coffee, Tea, Peony; 2022; oil/canvas; 36x48" (Private Collection)

Domestic Refuge; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x48" (Private Collection)

Castor & Coffee 2018; oil/canvas 30x24 inches (Private Collection)

Tina's Hydrangeas; 2018; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

Lilacs; 2023; oil/canvas; 36x36 inches

Coffee Break; 2019; oil/canvas/pottery shards; 30x24" (Private Collection)

Leaves & Coffee; 2018; oil/canvas; 30x30 inches

Coffee, Tea, Stormy Sea; 2019; oil/canvas; 24x30 inches

Cold tide, heavy sky,
salt air tarnished metal,
swirling reverie

Forsythia & Teacups; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x30 inches (Private Collection)

Moonlit Magnolias; 2018; oil/canvas; 30x30"

A cold glass of milk,
gazing at a soulful moon
one with the cosmos

Balmy Breeze; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x30"

Across the Table; 2018; oil/canvas; 30x30"

Winter Table; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x30 inches

Honeydew; 2017; oil/canvas; 16x20"; (Private Collection)

Sue's Pitcher; 2015; oil/ canvas; 30x30"

B's Sugar & Creamer; 2016; oil/canvas; 16x20"

Begonia with Apples; 2017; oil/canvas; 30x40" (Private Collection)

Summer's Cup; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x24"; (Private Collection)

Boatyard

McDevitt’s boatyard is busy with boats and floats, movable docks and dumpsters, flowing tides and shifting sands.

Boatyard V; 2018; oil/ canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

McDevitt Boatyard; Pemberton Point; Hull, Massachusetts.

Boatyard IV; 2018; oil/ canvas; 24x30" (Private Collection)

McDevitt Boatyard, Pemberton Point, Hull, Massachusetts.

Boatyard I; 2018; oil/ canvas; 24x30" (Private Collection)

McDevitt Boatyard at Pemberton Point, Hull, Massachusetts.

Boatyard II; 2018; oil/ canvas; 30x30"

McDevitt Boatyard at Pemberton Point, Hull, Massachusetts.

Boatyard Containers; 2018; oil/ canvas; 24x30" (Private Collection)

Chatham Boathouse; 2019; oil/ canvas; 30x40"

McDevitt Boatyard; Pemberton Point; Hull, Massachusetts.

Passageways

Right of Way from the Bay; 2022; oil/canvas; 30x24 (Private Collection)

Steps to the Bay I; 2020; oil/canvas; 30x24" (Private Collection)

Weathered wooden steps descend a brushy embankment to the bay — far from the workaday world.

Steps to the Bay II; 2020; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

At the foot of the
stair, wild mint, blackberry canes,
kingfisher chatter

Studio Space 3; oil/ canvas; 2018; 24X30" (Private Collection)

Artist residency studio; Fine Arts Work Center; Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The Back Path; 2018; oil/paper; 22x22"

Fine Arts Work Center; Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Secret Steps; 2017; oil/ canvas; 16x20"

Victorian steps carved into glacial rock.

V's Garden; 2017; oil/ canvas; 24x18" (Private Collection)

She tends the borders,
long, splendid growing season,
winter’s welcome rest

Hull Village

Hull Village is nestled at the end of a peninsula and surrounded by the sea and open sky. Victorian summer cottages wear weathered charm. The harbor is sprinkled with islands; channel markers, boats and birds. Sunlight and clouds shift overhead to spectacular effect.

Embankment in Bloom; 2024; oil/canvas; 24x30 inches

James Ave Beach, Hull Village

Low Tide; 2024; oil/canvas; 24x30 inches

James Ave Beach, Hull Village, Massachusetts

Ocean Avenue Seawall 2; 2023; oil/canvas; 20x16 inches (Private Collection)

Sea beaten seawall, Ocean Ave., Hull Village

Gold On The Hill; 2017; oil/canvas; 20x16" (Private Collection)

Fort Revere Tower. Hull Village, Massachusetts.

Ocean Ave Seawall; 2022; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

View to the north with Victorian homes on Lafayette and Crest Streets. Hull Village, Massachusetts.

Black Storm Over Peddocks; 2017; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

Jame's Ave Awnings; 2016; oil/canvas; 20x16" (Private Collection)

Number 11 James Avenue, Hull Village, Massachusetts.

In the Garden

Rabbit Realm; 2022; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

In the Thick of Things; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

Hydrangeas; 2022; oil/canvas; 30x30" (Private Collection)

Clematis; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x24” (Private Collection)

Hugging the trellis,
pale pink petals, softest scent
childhood memories

Seaside Clematis; 2019; oil/canvas; 30x30"

Blue Magnolias; 2018; oil/ canvas; 24x30"

Seascapes, Shorescapes

There is a set of weathered wooden steps that leads down a brushy embankment to the bay. To descend them is to be transported far from the workaday world. During summer it’s warm enough to swim in the bay and laze in the sun. In all seasons it is a fine place to walk and commune with nature, usually in solitary bliss.