Don Gray began what was to be his professional career as an artist having drawn or painted nearly all his life. Having lived in the Pacific Northwest, California and Arizona, he has moved back to his childhood roots which inspired his early landscape paintings to reside in Oregon with his wife Brenda.
     A graduate from Eastern Oregon University, Don Gray has a large following due to his historical full-scale community murals, regional landscapes and figures and illustrated books of western history. His paintings can be viewed in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Numberous websites showcase his paintings and murals, including his own site "Don Gray Murals".
     Along with Cove artist, Tom Diamond, Don created the collaborative La Grande’s Birnie Park Oregon Trail Memorial ceranmic columns along the walking path.
     His realist paintings have the sense of seeing what he saw at the time of the paintings conception. Whether it be painting huge murals on the side of a building or ones that are the size of his palm, his daily blog portrays Don as a contented and happy man as long as he doing what he loves best-painting.