"What I love about painting is that it embodies a series of thought and feeling processes. It's all there on the canvas as a record. I can put something on the canvas, consider it, adjust it, remove it, replace it, add to it, conceal it, reveal it, destroy it and repair it. I can be in a good mood, a bad mood, a cheerful mood or a destructive mood - it's all useful."
- Fiona Rae (via The Observer)
I found this quote from Fiona Rae so inspirational and so true. I am a believer that it is important to convey the artists feelings or mood within a painting, and Rae's work always achieves this.
In recent work, including the images above, the mood is quite ambiguous. At a first glance flowers, hearts and cartoon characters imply a sweet, almost cloying and child-like world, yet Rae’s various washes and veils of paint along with the sometimes dark and brooding palette suggest dissolution. The paintings seem to suggest the seductions, contradictions and disappointments of contemporary life and culture.
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