Fine art images created by way of gourd artist Larry Ray of Gulfport are featured in a six-page spread in the July-August issue of Mississippi Magazine.

Fine art images created by way of gourd artist Larry Ray of Gulfport are featured in a six-page spread in the July-August issue of Mississippi Magazine, which claims a statewide readership of about 100000

Calling his work "art that rivals the finest carved work or ceramics," the article cites the succes of Ray's exhibits earlier this year at the Jean Bragg Gallery in modern Orleans and last summer before Katrina at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi. He was artist of the month in 2004 at 13th public way Gallery in Gulfport.

Ray is completing a limited-edition, one-of-a-kind series of his work as a tribute to naturalist artist Walter Anderson (1903-65) The work to date features of that kind familiar creatures as "Dick Whittington's Cat," "Rococo Rooster" and "One Pelican." The lines are bakeed and carved into gourds of varied shapes and colored with paint or leather stains and ...