Ray's work stems from her childhood memories of living and growing up in foster care and children's homes.

Exploring these memories through her art enables her to confront adverse childhood experiences and begin the healing process. She uses her love of different materials, their texture and tactile nature, to convey the juxtaposition of surface appearance - the face we show the world - and the internal decay and damage - the truth we hide from the world.

As when a first aider applies a plaster or bandage to begin the healing process some wounds heal but others run deeper and fester, so Ray's art has led her to find healing in some areas and in others has merely highlighted deeper wounds to her spirit from the abuse - physical, verbal and sexual - she endured.