David Rayner · The Ground Beneath the Pattern
Systema Mundi Totius, rotating
Art · Four bodies of work

The Work

Paintings, smoke, folded paper — eighteen works, and the ground they rose from.

See the works
An instrument

The Holding Field

A space to stay with an image of your own. It never tells you what it means.

Approach the Field
Four doors

The Ideas

Ground and pattern, the fold, the symmetrical deep, the infinite in the finite — plainly spoken.

Open the doors
The formal register

The Papers

The paper and the talk beneath the exhibition — Matte Blanco, Cantor, and the nucleation of form.

Read about them
The consulting room

The Practice

Jungian-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy — seventeen years, online and in Singapore.

Counselling in the City ↗
One inquiry, different registers

About & Contact

Thirty years from a first summer at the Slade to this — and where to write.

The story
The Work

The pattern, and the ground beneath it

Four bodies of work, one inquiry. Each is ordered here — series, titles, editions — but every work began the same way: something rising out of an undifferentiated ground and taking form. Open any of them for a closer look.

The Map

Everything, at a glance

Six rooms of one building. Enter anywhere.

The Work

Paintings, fumage and folded works — the four bodies of the practice.

The Field

A contemplative instrument for staying with an image. Entry by passphrase.

The Ideas

Four short essays — no prior reading required.

The Papers

The formal register — the paper and the talk beneath the work.

The Practice

Jungian-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy, online and in Singapore.

city-counselling.com ↗

About & Contact

One inquiry, different registers — and the door to the studio.

Originals · Editions · Exhibitions

Bringing a work home

Originals and folded works are available by enquiry from the studio in Singapore. Limited and open edition prints of the paintings and fumage works are in preparation — register interest on any work and you'll hear first.

Write to the studio