What the Drawing Room Teaches

A drawing room asks its occupants to make room for one another. Its proportions, pauses, and lines of sight quietly govern the drama within it.

Nicholas Wray’s canvases understand this etiquette. A figure is never alone; a curtain, a chair, or an unopened door is always listening.

The gallery has borrowed this lesson: leave space around the work, and let the room do part of the speaking.