The timeline of my artistic endeavors, and my story
Not available for purchase, but I hope it inspires you to create or gives you a vision of what I can create for you.
- Ray
House Fuji leather quilt patch. Tooled with a tattoo machine. Added to the Leather Quilt June 2024 leatherquilt.com
House Fuji leather bound protocol manual and photo album
Horse Skull and Deer vertebrae mount
Rose bush. Deer skull, paint, quartz, and dried floral
The wild in a Cats Eye. Acrylic on leather cat skull and tigers eye painting with sacred geometry
Rolling tote bag prototype for Balu. will be finalized and listed in the future
Pink catholic collar commission (anonymous)
Prototype backpack for Yennefer. Completely hand stitched. Will be finalized and listed in the future
commissioned collar and leash for Atomic. Duplicate of this leash and collar available
Commission Battle Jacket for Adria
Bdsm peg board
Roses and Lace Collar. Lace design printed on leather. Saddle stitched by hand (Exclusive collar sold)
Gaia. watercolor and wood burning
Adorned Kudu Skull painted on trench coat commission (anonymous)
entomology mounting
Royalty collar (Exclusive collar sold)
Garden spider. Made from raccoon bones, paint, dried flowers, and hot glue web
real spider web
first bag comission
wire wrap Amethyst set in collar (exclusive collar sold)
first knife holster commission for Travis
The raven. Acrylic on leather
wire wrapping amethyst (sold)
Racks on Racks
wire wrapping moss agate for Aiden
Queer femme power. Acrylic on leather. Painted for a Trump protest (sold)
wire wrapping Rhodochrosite
Paint and dry flower on boars head
Crow, Fruit bat, and Fox skull wood burning (sold Crow and Fox)
Wire Wrapping. Onyx and Blue goldstone (sold)
DIY tuffed headboard
Charged. Acrylic on leather
first wire wrapping
Tidal Wave Moon and sacred geometry on leather (auctioned at All Howls Eve charity)
Tidal Wave Moon and sacred geometry on leather (auctioned at All Howls Eve charity)
acrylic on jean
Repo The Genetic Opera Patch (sold)
One of my first paintings on clothing with white paint and bic pen ink (sold)
About the Artist
Ray Lucian is a macabre artist and leather craftsperson in Athens, Ga. A self taught jack-of-all-trades, their craftsmanship incorporates various materials, including leather, stone, wire, metal, scavenged animal bones, insects, wood, fabric, paint, sublimation and screen prints…the list goes on.
Ray’s artistic style is influenced by their fascination with the macabre, esotericism, gothic subculture, and fetish lifestyles. They also find ways to integrate facets of their life experiences into their art. If you pay attention, you’ll find easter eggs that pay homage to their adventures.
When they aren’t busy getting their hands dirty with leather dye, you can catch them bootblacking at events in the north Georgia region or sewing patches on jackets at biker bars.
Where It All Began
Ray started their art journey in their early 20’s. From humble beginnings, they started with painting and modifying clothes they found at thrift stores with nothing but dollar tree brush packs, black and white outdoor craft paint, and Bic pen inks cut open and mixed into paint. Growing up in poverty made them resourceful.
Fast forward to 2018, they traded in thrifted combat boots for 8 inch pleasers and spent a few years in the adult entertainment industry as a stripper. That extra income opened the door to pursue a dream they always had: To be a fashion designer. And while they still wear thrift and don’t expect to see a runway, they are currently living the dream through being a leather artisan.
Connections from the strip club and the local kink scene of Athens and Atlanta made this dream even more possible. With the additional financial and moral support of their partner and leather family, this dandelion has the roots that you see today.