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.

  • Ian Rayer Smith, A New Tomorrow , 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, A New Tomorrow , 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Cutters , 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, Cutters , 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Drenched , 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, Drenched , 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Frequent Tendencies , 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, Frequent Tendencies , 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Fundamentally Different from all Other Entities , 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, Fundamentally Different from all Other Entities , 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Fusions and Flutters , 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Fusions and Flutters , 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, The Day We Never Had , 2021
    Ian Rayer Smith, The Day We Never Had , 2021
  • Ian Rayer Smith, 'Ridicules and delicacies' , 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, 'Ridicules and delicacies' , 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Wander , 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Wander , 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Dark Beyond Blue, 2021
    Ian Rayer Smith, Dark Beyond Blue, 2021
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Wonderful Life, 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, Wonderful Life, 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Love in the Open , 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Love in the Open , 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Rock , 2018
    Ian Rayer Smith, Rock , 2018
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Treehouse , 2021
    Ian Rayer Smith, Treehouse , 2021
  • Ian Rayer Smith, The Supper Before Last , 2022
    Ian Rayer Smith, The Supper Before Last , 2022
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Under the surface, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Under the surface, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Enthralled by solitude , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Enthralled by solitude , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Engulfed in curiosity, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Engulfed in curiosity, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Garden of Eden , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Garden of Eden , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Fractured , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Fractured , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Transitions beyond all expectations , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Transitions beyond all expectations , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Lakeside , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Lakeside , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Tender moments , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Tender moments , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Take your hand in mine, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Take your hand in mine, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Repercussions, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Repercussions, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Fiddles and floops, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Fiddles and floops, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Breakers, 2022
    Ian Rayer Smith, Breakers, 2022
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Lipsync, 2022
    Ian Rayer Smith, Lipsync, 2022
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Prelude, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Prelude, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Whisked away, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Whisked away, 2025