Aubrey Ramage-Lay

Bio

I went to a lot of different schools where I studied a lot of different things

I have travelled many, many places and seen many, many things

I am aphantasiac

I lived in Southeast Asia for awhile

I am disillusioned with capitalism

I lived in Budapest for a long time

I studied painting at university in Hungary

I am disillusioned with the art world

I still paint but in a different way now

I make pottery and I make jewelry

I also write and paint tiny things and carve wood sometimes

I am striving to master ZBrush so I can manifest

the things that exist within me

with my 3d printer

I live in Spain now with my wife and two children

and I am generally pretty happy


Artist statement

I create because it is my nature rather than a choice. We all project our inner world outward through gesture, language, and image. Working primarily in oil painting, my practice is shaped by contemplative traditions and an ongoing exploration of perception, transformation, and the shifting boundaries of the self.

Through symbolic and mythic structures, I examine the tension between illusion and reality, and the ways identity dissolves into something larger than the individual. Figures and archetypes emerge as vessels for psychological and spiritual processes, reflecting the continuous movement between order and chaos, rupture and renewal.

My paintings suggest that nothing exists in isolation: we are complex knots within a shared fabric of experience. I hope the work invites recognition, reflection, and moments of quiet awakening.

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