Paintings & Drawings
Tomas G. Lay was born in Hungary. In 1956, his family left during the October Revolution, eventually making their way to the United States, where he grew up from the age of ten. He lived and worked in America for several decades before settling in Valencia, Spain, where he continues to paint.
His earlier work is rooted in figuration — a practice built on careful looking, on the relationship between the human body and the surfaces it inhabits. Over time, his painting moved toward abstraction, not as a rejection of what came before but as a deepening of the same questions: what a mark means, how colour creates space, what a flat surface can hold.
His work has been exhibited across Europe and the United States and is held in private collections in both continents.