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Exhibition: Anomaly of Emotions
Anomaly of Feelings begins from a simple observation: that beauty can come from any emotion at all. Joy and calm, longing and unease, tenderness and grief. In these paintings, the whole range is treated as raw material, and none of it is turned away. Brush, paint and canvas become the... Read more -
Exhibition: Layers
Layers is concerned with what cannot be seen. Every painting begins long before the image that finally meets the eye, and rests on the work beneath it: the foundational marks and the middle passages that never reach the surface but shape everything that does. Those buried layers are where the... Read more -
Exhibition: Hidden Figures
Look long enough at any of Ian Rayer-Smith's paintings and you begin to find company. A figure, a character, a presence, rarely announced and never quite named, but unmistakably there. These are abstract figures rather than human ones, alive without being literal, and their nature is welcoming. Once found, they... Read more -
Exhibition: The Power of Green
Green is not a simple colour. It carries contradictions. Growth and decay, stillness and unease, the natural world, and something altogether more unsettling beneath it. In Ian Rayer-Smith's hands, it becomes a force rather than a shade. This collection brings together ten works in which green plays a defining role.... Read more -
Exhibition: No Rules
The most interesting decisions in painting happen at the point where convention runs out. Ian Rayer-Smith has always worked from that place. Not in opposition to tradition, but beyond it. Where the old masters end, the questions begin. This collection is the result of that thinking made visible. Works conceived... Read more
