Raymond McCrea Jones Studio

Raymond McCrea Jones Studio https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com Welcome to the studio of photographer Raymond McCrea Jones. Here you'll find original artwork created by the artist released in small editions. 117554784 Fern, Cotton and Oysters Fern, Cotton and Oysters, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11"x14"About the Work In certain parts of the country you may come upon a random collection of oyster shells in the dirt. When you look closer you’ll realize that these shells have been buried under the dirt for quite some time. As you dig them up and brush the dirt away you’ll find that they are in remarkably good condition as if they were just buried. Someone once told me this is because folks would eat oysters in large quantities, maybe for a dinner party or celebration, and then they would just throw them out into the yard in a pile. And they told me that oyster shells do not degrade as they are remarkably resilient. I’ve found oyster shells all around my property. The cotton in this photograph was gathered along the side of the road in South Georgia. I grabbed a handful blowing across the road and stuck in a jar. The mystique and tortured history of cotton really hits hard when you see a cotton field in the South with your own eyes. About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/fern-cotton-oysters https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/418421106/_J2_4797-Fern_-Cotton-and-Oysters.jpg 117554784 new in stock 117554769 A Forgotten Place A Forgotten Place, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11"x14"About the Work Kudzu is everywhere around us in the Deep South. It springs up with its large deep green leaves, growing at an unimaginable pace. It places a mother root deep below the surface and proliferates itself through vines that spread underground before jumping out of the soil seemingly from nowhere. It is resilient beyond belief. It can create a canvas of green waves washing over entire tracts of land. It can even be cooked and eaten like collards. But as it grows and grows it swallows up anything in its path completely blocking out the sun from reaching anything under it. The rolling green shapes that are created belie a graveyard of dead or dying plants below the surface that are utterly defenseless against a predator as ruthless as this. Kudzu is here to stay and cannot be destroyed but we can learn to live amicably with it.About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/a-forgotten-place https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/418421079/_J2_4753-A-Forgotten-Place.jpg 117554769 new in stock 117554736 Inside and Out Inside and Out, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11"x14"About the Work We exist to love, explore, learn, create, grow, change, chase, fail and reflect. We are all connected. Everything we do individually has the potential to help or hurt those around us. Once can choose a life of empathy, ambition and humility or one can choose a path of fear, intolerance and egotism. This choice is not pre-determined. Walking along this journey, hand in hand with other humans, sharing experiences, conquering challenges and growing together must be the hallmark of a life lived in pursuit of ultimate enlightenment.About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/inside-and-out https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/418421007/_J2_5189-Inside-and-Out.jpg 117554736 new in stock 117554616 Drop #3 - Complete Set of Three About the WorkBundle the complete set of three prints from this edition and own the set. Each set comes with matching edition numbers. Get yours and become an art ally today! "Inside and Out," "A Forgotten Place" and "Fern, Cotton and Oysters" included in this set.About the EditionEach month, Jones releases a 3-5 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print DetailsEdition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artistDimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed)Paper: Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth 305 gsm Matte finishPrinted locally with museum-quality inksAuthenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of AuthenticityPackaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 850.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/drop-3-complete-set-of-three https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/418420611/Drop-3-comp.jpg 117554616 new in stock 116439486 Drop #2 - Complete Set of Three About the WorkBundle the complete set of three prints from this edition and own the set. Each set comes with matching edition numbers. Get yours and become an art ally today! "Ultra Ultra Positive," "Familial" and "Version 3" included in this set.About the EditionEach month, Jones releases a 3-5 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print DetailsEdition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artistDimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed)Paper: Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth 305 gsm Matte finishPrinted locally with museum-quality inksAuthenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of AuthenticityPackaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 850.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/drop-2-complete-set-of-three https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/414925188/Drop-2.jpg 116439486 new in stock 116439468 Familial Familial, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11"x14"About the WorkWhat is a memory but a reconstruction of a moment in time made from a real experience. Layers and layers of images stacked on top of one another and stitched together in whatever mode one’s brain can devise. Is this memory true or is it just a combination of the stories you’ve heard and the photographs you’ve seen? Did it even really happen? Was I even there? And, in the end, does it even matter? Photography is magic. About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/familial https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/414924627/_J2_4802-Familial.jpg 116439468 new in stock 116439378 Version 3 Version 3, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11"x14"About the WorkSometimes it takes looking through layer upon layer of a memory to find some semblance of what the actual reality is. But I think maybe we obsess too much over the accuracy of our memories when we should be appreciating their dynamic ability to evolve with us as we move through different stages of life. About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/version-3 https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/415514580/_J2_4378-Version-3.jpg 116439378 new in stock 115454190 Uncle Frank Uncle Frank, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11"x14"About the Work Uncle Frank is a soul I’ll never get to meet. He died at the age of 42 — an alcoholic whose addiction killed him, leaving behind parents, siblings, and a niece who crowned him her favorite uncle. This photograph is a fragment of her memory of him — a tangible artifact she uses to fill in the blanks between moments and stories that inevitably grow fuzzier over time.About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/uncle-frank https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/414131430/_J2_4815_Uncle_Frank.jpg 115454190 new in stock 115454136 Window into Heaven Window into Heaven, 2025 Archival Pigment PrintSigned and Numbered by the artistEdition of 1011"x14"About the WorkA black box sealed off from the outside — so void and dark inside that an entire universe could exist within it, and no one would ever know. A black box that can create beauty and suffering in the same instant, without hesitation. The dark matter magic that freezes time and visualizes memory. The witchcraft of photography.About the EditionEach month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print DetailsEdition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artistDimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed)Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inksAuthenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of AuthenticityPackaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/window-into-heaven https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/413600400/_J2_4714_Window-into-Heaven.jpg 115454136 new in stock 115353258 Drop #1 - Complete Set of Three About the WorkBundle the complete set of three prints from this edition and own the set. Each set comes with matching edition numbers. Get yours and become an art ally today! "Ultra Ultra Positive," "Like Nascar but Better," and "Lake Terry" included in this set.About the EditionEach month, Jones releases a 3-5 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print DetailsEdition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artistDimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed)Paper: Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth 305 gsm Matte finishPrinted locally with museum-quality inksAuthenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of AuthenticityPackaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 850.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/drop-1-set https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/413122104/drop-1-set.jpg 115353258 new in stock 115341741 Ultra Ultra Positive Ultra Ultra Positive, 2025 Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 10 11”x14”About the Work The layered imagery in this photograph allows for many questions to be asked? Lying asleep in my thoughts I often think about how I got here. Why was I born into this family at this time? It’s meaningless to ask really but it does portend a deeper inner dialogue that has real value. Questions of humanity, rights to land, borders, concepts of culture, otherness, family and even politics. I challenge you to look at this photograph and be open to whatever arises in your mind. About the Edition Each month, Jones releases a 3-5 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual.Print Details Edition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artist Dimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed) Paper: Archival Hahnemühle fine art paper, printed locally with museum-quality inks Authenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity Packaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/ultra-ultra-positive https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/415858407/_J2_4320_Ultra-Ultra-Positive-.jpg 115341741 new in stock 115341099 Lake Terry Lake Terry, 2025 Archival Pigment PrintSigned and Numbered by the artistEdition of 1011"x14"About the WorkI grew up in Nascar country, central North Carolina. By the age of 8 I was ripping around on go karts fitted with plastic bodies of our favorite drivers like Bill Elliott and Dale Earnhardt. Everyone’s dads drank Budweiser and smoked. Church, nascar, bicycles, summer nights, flashlight tag, fireflies, scraped knees, fights, dirt jumps, micro machines, skateboarding, sunburn and He-man. Make a collage of those things and it would encapsulate the 1980s for me.About the EditionEach month, Jones releases a 3 fine art photographs from the brand new series 'Closer Than My Breath.' Every print is a meditation on themes of pain, healing, and transcendence, blending abstraction with photographic precision. Inspired by poetry, recovery, love and meditation, these works invite collectors to slow down and experience photography as both image and ritual. Print DetailsEdition Size: Limited to 10 prints, signed and numbered by the artistDimensions: 11 × 14 inches (unframed)Paper: Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth 305 gsm Matte finishPrinted locally with museum-quality inksAuthenticity: Each print includes a hand-signed Certificate of AuthenticityPackaging: Archival sleeve with acid-free backer board, shipped flat in a rigid mailer for maximum protection 300.00 USD https://raymstudio.bigcartel.com/product/lake-terry https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/413122089/_J2_4443_Lake-Terry.jpg 115341099 new in stock