“The blue Period” distils my practice to a single chromatic force. Here, blue is not merely colour, it is architecture, horizon and pulse. Cobalt and ultramarine are layered, lifted and reworked; light slips through glazes while drawn marks and erasures keep the paintings alive at the surface. The restraint of the palette heightens contrast: serenity against mischief, silence against velocity. Hints of the classical linger, but the feeling is resolutely contemporary, poised between sky and deep water, memory and immediacy.

These works are built for long looking: the more time you give them, the more the blues begin to breathe.
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Dawn, 2025
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Dawn, 2025
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Depth of soul, 2025
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Depth of soul, 2025
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Wrap yourself around me , 2025
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Wrap yourself around me , 2025
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Laguna , 2023
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Laguna , 2023
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Portal 6 , 2023
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Portal 6 , 2023
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Post Terram, 2023
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Post Terram, 2023
  • Ian Rayer-Smith , Show Me the Stars, 2023
    Ian Rayer-Smith , Show Me the Stars, 2023