“Non vi sia nulla... di più astratta del reale” - Giorgio Morandi

(There is nothing... more abstract than reality)

Informed by the complex simplicity and contrast of Ralph Gibson and the abstraction of Ernst Haas, Rhys is drawn to the quiet tension in the way that light sculpts, obscures, and transforms.

His intention is to reduce the world into shapes and lines—bold, minimal, and often just on the edge of ambiguity. With an eye toward contrast and texture, he seeks to isolate unnoticed contours, and let light tell us a story.

His visual language is unapologetically focused on the elemental. He isolates the fragments that he finds interesting - sometimes striking, sometimes muted, and sometimes slightly out of kilter.

He’s not so much interested in what we see, but how we see, and what it makes us feel. With compositions stripped to their elements, what remains is but a distilled moment.