About the Artist
Ray Doolan, a native of Swansea, Massachusetts, found an interest in horticulture at a very young age. Ray is a graduate of Bristol County Agricultural High School, where he studied floriculture and landscape design. After High School, Ray went on to get his business degree from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, and he is now a recent graduate of Rittner’s School of Floral Design Boston , Ma. His love for flowers and various plant life brought him many years of landscape designing and planting for private homes and businesses.
In 1994, Ray was living in Dublin, New Hampshire when he was inspired by his next-door neighbor (a retired educator named Barbara Carll) to combine his artistic abilities and knowledge of plant material. The pressed flower business was germinated and grew. Growing, pressing, and designing an artistic product in its various forms. Ray takes great pride incorporating wedding invitations, birth announcements, photographs, or other mementos with his original one-of-a-kind designs. He has developed special techniques of pressing his garden flowers so their colors will last for decades.