The Abstracted Collection is an exploration of the spaces between reality and imagination, where form, memory, and emotion dissolve into something both familiar and ungraspable. In these paintings, recognisable shapes might emerge for a moment before melting back into the canvas, much like the way memories shift and change when recalled. I approach each piece as a search, not for a perfect image, but for a raw truth. Layers of colour, texture, and mark-making are built, destroyed, and rebuilt again, echoing the way we construct and deconstruct meaning in our lives. The process is physical, instinctive, and often unpredictable, allowing the work to hold an energy that feels alive. While the paintings are rooted in abstraction, they often carry a human presence, a flicker of movement, a shadow of a figure, a whisper of a landscape, fragments that invite the viewer to find their own story. I want the work to offer an open space for reflection; a place where the mind can wander and the emotions can land without needing resolution. In the end, The Abstracted Collection is less about what you see, and more about what you feel. It’s an ongoing conversation between the paint, the artist, and the viewer, one that resists tidy conclusions and instead embraces the beauty of the unresolved.
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Ian Rayer Smith, Flank , 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Take your hand in mine, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Wander , 2023
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Ian Rayer Smith, Engulfed in curiosity, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Fiddles and floops, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Fundamentally Different from all Other Entities , 2024
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Ian Rayer Smith, Lakeside , 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Whisked away, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Prelude, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Garden of Eden , 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Tender moments , 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Cutters , 2024
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Ian Rayer Smith, 'Ridicules and delicacies' , 2024
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Ian Rayer Smith, Wonderful Life, 2024
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Ian Rayer Smith, Fusions and Flutters , 2023
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Ian Rayer Smith, Love in the Open , 2023
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Ian Rayer Smith, Drenched , 2024
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Ian Rayer Smith, Frequent Tendencies , 2024
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Ian Rayer Smith, A New Tomorrow , 2023
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Ian Rayer Smith, Transitions beyond all expectations , 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Flank, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Under the surface, 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Enthralled by solitude , 2025
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Ian Rayer Smith, Lipsync, 2022
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Ian Rayer Smith, Treehouse , 2021
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Ian Rayer Smith, The Day We Never Had , 2021
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Ian Rayer Smith, Dark Beyond Blue, 2021
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Ian Rayer Smith, Rock , 2018
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Ian Rayer Smith, Breakers, 2022