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The impact of Renaissance architectural spaces Jaray encountered on her travels in Italy were formative for the development of her distinctive technique.

In these ceilings she saw how simple lines interacted to transform space, powerfully inducing emotional responses.

Writing on Jaray's paintings of the 60s Jasia Reichardt said they could be called '" ceiling geography " because they suggest views of an interior seen from below ...

Her paintings suggest some underlying mystery through the suggestion of architectural perspective.

' Much of her career as a painter has been spent investigating the quality of effects geometry, pattern, repetition and colour have on space.

The patterns she creates evoke spatial ambiguities and shifting structures which work on the viewer ’ s perceptions in subtle ways.

According to the critic Terry Pitts her work ‘ sense ( s ) the way in which history of decoration and patterning is embedded with elemental human experiences and impulses ’.