David P. Gray, Houston, Painter – Photographer, former Instructor of Art at the University of St. Thomas and Instructor of Computer Graphics at North Harris County College. He paints people in their own environments and natural genres. This painting is a late work that shows Gertrude Barnstone, Richard Stout, Roberta Harris and Penny Cerling in a breakfast scene at Thios Restaurant. The subjects are well known Houston Artists. They have been Gray’s friends for many years, so they are the natural choices for subjects for in his paintings. Most of the people in these paintings are local Houston Artists from the Friday Morning Breakfast Group; Jack Boynton, Earl Staley, Richard Stout, Harvey Bott, Dick Wray, Bas Poulos, Gertrude Barnstone, Penny Cerling,  Dr. William Camfield, Roberta Harris, Don Shaw, Andy Feehan, Barry Rose ( a collector), and Ibsen Espada to name a few.  Gray has been meeting for breakfast every Friday morning at several locations since the 1970s. In Houston the Art community is a small, tight knit group of Painters, Sculptors, Dancers, Chorographers, Musicians, Writers, Cinematographers, Videographers and Photographers, that all know each other; most of them are former faculty members at local Universities. So with Friday breakfast meetings and bar meetings for the last fifty years, Gray has had his subjects trapped. His camera is always present. He uses photography and sketches to assemble a digital working images for a painting guide. Gray feels his paintings are notes to the future of the way we were. His paintings in this style have been shown at Anya Tish Gallery and at Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston, Texas.