Peat Archive

Ray Peat was a painter and art enthusiast throughout his life, and he saw art as deeply connected to his biological and philosophical thinking. He painted in an expressionist style and was influenced by Blake, the Mexican muralists, and abstract expressionism. For Peat, artistic perception and creativity were indicators of biological vitality — he believed that metabolic health directly affected perception, cognition, and creative capacity.

Peat frequently discussed the relationship between art, perception, and biology in interviews. He argued that the reductionist tendencies in modern science paralleled similar impoverishments in modern art, and that both reflected a cultural move away from holistic, organismic understanding. His interest in art was not a hobby separate from his science — it was an integral part of his unified worldview.