Stella Rainbird
I've always admired the expressionists and identify with their conflict between
objective values and subjective appraisal between reality and the artistic ego.
I'm mainly a self taught artist, I absorb references and inspiration avidly from National and International museums and galleries and art books of which my collection is vast and growing.
A nostalgic bent for other lifetimes, traditions and cultures stems from a London childhood where art galleries and museums were my playground.
I'm a full time artist, I enjoy painting on a large scale when space allows and feel my work is more powerful and commanding.
I love the language of paint in general but my preferred medium is oil, it gives me an instant control of colour and improves texture to give a richness and depth.
I won't sign a painting unless I am satisfied I can breathe life into it and it can stand alone.
Deep searching has led me out of the realms of impressionism and abandoning it totally for expressionism. Endowed with an intoxicating and free romantic spirit
enables me to push boundaries of tradition, symbolism and realism and interpret them with conspicuous contemporary vision and personal intuition.
My artwork is political in the sense that it offers a perspective-direct or indirect-on social relations.
A variegated tapestry is woven, the narrative-or story
represent events taking place over time, these events
suggest something has already happened or is about to take place.
Influences are John Bellany, Max Beckmann, Picasso, Csontvary, Hundertwasser
and many more.
