"What is it about the essence of the female that David Bray captures like no other? Grace, poise, poetry, knowing, power and centre, a dark sexual subtext...melting natural sensuality and feral energy...I look at David's iconic girls and I see a metaphor for life...I want to wrap my naked thighs around the neck of a lion...I want to be that girl.. her crimson heart drumming the beat of life...the scent of Joan Of Arc in her untamed hair...we are told every day that the female species is in ruins...reduced to believing that handbags are the Holy Grail...vacuous, neurotic and chemically dependent on anthrax that we inject into our faces...IVF...cocaine...a species defined by our catatonic eating disorders and unnecessary operations...David Bray knows this is a lie...his pen is my sword."

Mary Anne Hobbs