Sara Ray - California USA
Born
in Southern California into a family of artist pro surfers and wandering Hot
Rodders , Photographer, Illustrator and self taught painter Sara Ray transforms
the cryptic Hot Rod lifestyle into images both haunting and inspiring.
Sara
Ray spent her early years riding in rusted hot rods filled with surfboards
covered in sun bleached Rat Fink stickers. Her family made of legendary surfers,
movie starlets and WWII veterans owned Barris custom cars before he was famous
and started one of the nation’s first custom surfboard shops in the 1950's.
Listing her influences she includes everything from old German masters and
medieval manuscript illuminations, to 1940's Stag magazines, and Sunday morning
cartoons. Her large paintings in oil glisten with full custom 'lead sleds, hot
rod zombies and high flying bombers so realistic you can almost smell the
burning gasoline.
Working
all hours in a one room studio that resembles a war museum she spends any free
time wrenching on her own vintage cars and pursuing her passion for history,
interviewing WWII veterans and travelling to various air, military and art
museums around the world. Sara Ray currently hides out in
