“The blue Period” distils my practice to a single chromatic force. Here, blue is not merely colour, it is architecture, horizon and pulse. Cobalt and ultramarine are layered, lifted and reworked; light slips through glazes while drawn marks and erasures keep the paintings alive at the surface. The restraint of the palette heightens contrast: serenity against mischief, silence against velocity. Hints of the classical linger, but the feeling is resolutely contemporary, poised between sky and deep water, memory and immediacy.

These works are built for long looking: the more time you give them, the more the blues begin to breathe.
  • Ian Rayer Smith, The Divulgence of Decadence, 2024
    Ian Rayer Smith, The Divulgence of Decadence, 2024
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Depth of soul, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Depth of soul, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Show Me the Stars, 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Show Me the Stars, 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Portal 6 , 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Portal 6 , 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Breakers, 2022
    Ian Rayer Smith, Breakers, 2022
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Long sustain, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Long sustain, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Laguna , 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Laguna , 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Post Terram, 2023
    Ian Rayer Smith, Post Terram, 2023
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Dawn, 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Dawn, 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Wrap yourself around me , 2025
    Ian Rayer Smith, Wrap yourself around me , 2025
  • Ian Rayer Smith, Rock , 2018
    Ian Rayer Smith, Rock , 2018