Harvey Rayner (English, b. 1975) is an algorithmic artist who builds generative artworks from custom code, using mathematics and vector graphics to reconstruct the warmth and texture of pre-digital drawing and painting media. He treats randomness as a tool for exploring the possibilities contained within carefully crafted parameters rather than ceding authorship to an opaque system.
Rayner trained in fine art painting at a London art school but left before completing his first year, drawn instead toward making art from geometry.He spent roughly a decade building custom visualization tools to explore geometric forms, unaware at first that a generative art scene existed around this kind of work.,In 2022 he released his first Art Blocks project, Photon's Dream.That October he followed it with Fontana, a Curated collection released under his online handle patterndotco.,Fontana reimagines pre-computer technical drawing, using compass-and-ruler-style construction and unpreset generative color to evoke the flowing movement of a fountain.It sold out on release and went on to trade for hundreds of ETH in secondary volume.
In January 2023 Bright Moments released his project Velum.That same month, PROOF featured his work Reticulum in its Grails III collection.That August he released Quasi Dragon Studies, a project that turns collectors into co-curators through a custom tool called the Composite Builder, which lets them join generative tiles into new composite artworks, including rare Black and White Dragon configurations.,Vertu Fine Art exhibited his print series Covehithe in 2023, showing it at art fairs alongside works by Picasso and Basquiat.Art Blocks later commissioned marfaMESH for its Explorations collection.It also presented his project Algorithmic Synesthesia, which uses custom algorithms to translate emotional states into color, form, and texture, at Art Basel's Zero 10 sector in Hong Kong.,