Ray Paul in the News
Date: 09/2022Ray Paul - A Colorful Man & Artist
“I recently met the Tampa artist Ray Paul at an informal gathering, having been invited by a mutual friend. I was a bit skeptical about viewing art in someone’s home but went willingly. We stepped back in time that night. A time splashed with color, music, imagination, and stories…”
Date: 05/2019Bringing Cancer to the Canvas
You rarely find pathologists in the clinic or at the bedside. Instead, they’re usually hidden away in labs or offices looking through microscopes and making important decisions that can dictate how a patient is treated. They will probably never meet that patient; instead, a patient is a case or identification number and they will likely never see their face or hear their story….
Date: 01/2016Art By Patients and their Families
My name is Ray Paul, an artist, musician, biologist, and sarcoma patient receiving care at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. My sarcoma journey began in the spring of 2011, when I noticed a rapidly enlarging lump protruding from my left flank. When I received “The Call” to tell me that I had a sarcoma, shock and confusion rushed in, but curiously was followed by a sense of calm resolve and numb determination.
Date: 10/2016More Than a Cluster of Cells
I first noticed a rapidly enlarging lump protruding from my left flank in the spring of 2011. A urologist friend of mine agreed to remove it in his office, believing it to be a lipoma, but he quickly realized it was something more sinister. Marilyn Bui at Moffitt Cancer Center confirmed a diagnosis of high-grade myxofibrosarcoma, for which my primary oncologist gave me a prognosis of “better than a coin flip.”
Date: 04/2015Healing Art of Pathology
My relationship with the Sarcoma department here has been a very good one, and one that has transcended simply training and patient care. Immediately before I left for Oxford, my neighbor and friend +Ray Paul came to my house and asked me to feel a lump on his side...
Date: 04/2015Scientific B-Sides
Each of the paintings that Ray has made during this journey has had more than just Ray’s hands involved. Indeed, to make the paintings as you see them, a surgeon had to cut out his tumor, a pathologist had to stain and mount the tissue and a screen printer had to prepare the canvas.
Inspiring!
When Worlds Collide
There’s often something timeless about both art and its inspiration, visuals and emotions that transcend decades, societies, and circumstances. Something universally relatable-- something like the struggles of organic chemistry class.
Date: 09/2016New From CAP Press
An artist and biologist, Paul told the pathologist: “‘I want to see what my tumor looks like. I want to stare my devil in the eye,’” recalls Marilyn M. Bui, MD, PhD, a senior member of the Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Sarcoma, section head of bone and soft tissue pathology, and scientific director of the analytic microscopy core, Moffitt Cancer Center, and a professor and cytopathology fellowship director, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.