Nature’s Lies
at Exuma Fine Art
283B Commercial Street, Provincetown
508-487-0407 www.exumaart.com
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ABOUT THE COVER
The ebb and flow of the ocean coupled
with the passion and love for fine art
drives and creates the unique splendor
of Provincetown. With this sentiment in
mind, Exuma Fine Jewelry has created
Exuma Fine Art’s gallery, Nature’s Lies
located downstairs.
The story of Nature’s Lies inception began 6 years
ago when Ray Nolin, a longtime friend of Günter
Hanelt, owner of Exuma Fine Jewelry, came to ask
for storage space for his extensive collection of Ada
Rayner (Rayner, wife of an earlier Provincetown
artist and teacher, Henry Hensche) downstairs at
Exuma Fine Jewelry which housed a wire bending
studio. Ray’s idea was to not only catalog but also
exhibit to sell Rayner’s work upstairs. Every day
Ray would come around to move and change the
artwork in Exuma Fine Jewelry. At the same time,
when needing help, Ray would sell his own paintings
to Günter. Over this period Hanelt collected 100
paintings by Ray Nolin. This arrangement lasted two
and one half years until Ray Nolin’s untimely death in
September 2015.
During those years Günter and Ray had planned to
have a gallery in this space. It was Ray’s idea to call
it Nature’s Lies. This name came from Hensche’s
advice to his students to always observe the truth in
nature. Ray, being Ray, thought Nature’s Lies a good
name for the gallery. In honor of Ray Nolin’s memory
and his art, this gallery space is called Nature’s
Lies. For two and one half years after Ray’s passing,
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