My portraits are not about accurate resemblance; they’re attempts to catch a living presence. Faces surface from layers of paint and drawing, then partially withdraw, marks kept, marks removed, histories left visible. The gaze is suggested rather than fixed; a line can be tender or feral, a smudge can hold more truth than detail.
Echoes of the Renaissance meet a contemporary urgency as figuration edges into abstraction. Each work feels like a memory arriving: specific yet universal, poised between vulnerability and strength. These are portraits you don’t simply look at you meet them, and they quietly look back.
Echoes of the Renaissance meet a contemporary urgency as figuration edges into abstraction. Each work feels like a memory arriving: specific yet universal, poised between vulnerability and strength. These are portraits you don’t simply look at you meet them, and they quietly look back.
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Buffering , 202655 1/8 x 66 7/8 in
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Close enough, 202655 1/8 x 66 7/8 in
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Fiddles and features , 202655 1/8 x 66 7/8 in
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Bigger Issues, 202448 x 59 7/8 in
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Croud hunter, 202427 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
70 x 80 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Dalliances with significant adjustments , 202539 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
100 x 120 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Deadbeat, 202566 7/8 x 74 3/4 in
170 x 190 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Disconnect, 202427 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
70 x 80 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Reminiscent of rumbles, 202566 7/8 x 70 1/8 in
170 x 178 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Ricochet's, 202539 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
100 x 120 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Untouched39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
100 x 120 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Vanity Seeds, 202539 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
100 x 120 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
Mover, 202639 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
100 x 120 cmIan Rayer-Smith -
The place where forgotten promises drift quietly beneath the surface of things we thought we understood, 202648 x 59 7/8 in
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Where silence gathers, 202648 x 59 7/8 in
122 x 152 cmIan Rayer-Smith
