Turning The Wound

About the author: "When I began to paint at 50, I had already started on several decades of work with refugee survivors of torture. At that time, I was pleased to see no evidence of my work in my painting; for a while it was undoubtedly an escape. I am a colorist, I favor the Fauves, the Expressionists, the Canadian Group of Seven, the California Society of Six. My work was often dark." "As a painter I have consciously tried to adhere to doing art first and foremost - the attempt to preserve beauty, which surely is one of the goals in achieving justice. Without justice, art is banned and books are burned." Gerald Gray has dedicated his life to helping refugee survivors of torture. His work is internationally known and he has positively affected generations of people through the many rehabilitation and recovery programs he has instituted, worldwide.