The Power of Green is an invitation to stop, look, and ask why.
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. Not always dominant or obvious, but always intentional. In some paintings it grounds the composition, lending weight and a quiet authority. In others it acts on the colours around it, sharpening a red, softening a grey, creating tensions that ask the eye to keep moving. The collection is not about green as a subject. It is about green as a presence.
Rayer-Smith builds his paintings through accumulation, layer upon layer, mark upon mark.
The Power of Green is an invitation to stop, look, and ask why.
Green runs through much of that process like an undercurrent. These are works that reward time. A painting that reads one way at first glance will shift with longer looking. The colour does that. So does the work.