Fiona Rae.... serving up Kandinsky Abstract with generous smattering of Real.....

Just up my street. Had To have the same surname…..well phoneticallythe same….More Research needed. She’s an experimental painter who’s made a name for herself at the RA…… graduated and won the Turner Prise in the 90’s. So many workshop participants have initial difficulties completely letting go of representational elements in their painting. This work would be a great addition to the Kandinsky prints used as model answers.

“She is a kind of neo-pop abstract painter, which means she is an exceptional painter descends from the generations of Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Peter Halley, etc. But at the same time, one can feel the spirit of our time by the colour, the details and symbols that she uses. She’s now in her fifties but we can see that she came from a background of pop-culture, of comics and video games, etc., but the fact that these cultural elements are transcended by an extraordinary technique which makes her work never be outdated. Just like what we see in the work of Joan Mitchell, there is always an intellectual reading of art, of its world. There is a very rich cultural context that Fiona Rae has created in her work.”