Ray Ruseckas, known for the deep, natural earth tones of his pastel drawings, has been developing his talent over the past fifteen years, rendering his unique perceptions of the landscape. The moodiness and depth of the palette imbues each scene with its own sense of mystery. Typically he turns his eye toward the farmlands and architectural vernacular of New England. Beginning with his own mill on the Green River, he first began by studying how the old buildings settle into the landscape, and how integral they are to our sense of the region.

He has exhibited work at the Works on Paper Armory Show and the Art of the Twentieth Century in New York for over a decade, in addition to his regular exhibitions at Reeves Contemporary and Spheris Galleries. His work is in numerous private collections, and such corporate collections as Pfizer, Fidelity, GTE, and Hill and Barlow. His piece entitled, “Connecticut River, Morning Mist” was included in the traveling museum exhibition, “The American River,” which traveled to the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Florence Griswold Museum in Lyme, Connecticut, and several other museum venues.