Current works
These pantings are representative of how my work is currently expanding, with the more recent pieces at the top navigating down to some earlier ones from 2023.
Painterly, expressive, and emotionally charged, this new body of work is discerning the thresholds between chaos and order, light and shadow, instinct and reflection. Created through an intuitive layering process, the large-scale paintings of this new series offer a space of becoming – where nothing is fully resolved, and everything is still in motion.
These works are born from a deep, internal shift. A letting-go of safety, of polish, of the impulse to resolve. I’m exploring what happens when I surrender to process, when I trust instinct over intellect, gesture over image, uncertainty over clarity. There is tension in these paintings – between light and shadow, between intention and disruption, between trust and suspicion. I let the materials lead, allowing accidents, contradiction, and failure into the process. What emerges is a kind of emotional cartography – not of specific places or stories, but of the internal weather systems we all move through.
This work is not about answers, symbols, or solutions. It’s about presence. About being in a space of not knowing and staying there long enough to find something true. To sit with ambiguity, lean into tension, and maybe, in doing so, to recognise something of our own quiet contradictions. For me, painting is a place where complexity doesn’t need to be solved. It needs to be held.
YIELD
Oil on canvas
134 x 134cm
Yet to be titled
Oil on canvas
200 x 150cm
Subtle Body
Oil on canvas
275 x 195cm
SOLD
You ARE the House
Oil on canvas
275 x 195cm
Subconscious Landing
Oil on canvas
120 x 150cm
SOLD
Continuum
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
SOLD
Pentimento
Acrylic and oil on linen
120 x 120cm
Woman Putting on a Man Mask
Oil on canvas
120 x 90cm
Solstice
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
SOLD
STOP HITTING YOURSELF
Oil on canvas
120 x 150cm
Cockpit
Oil on canvas
120 x 150cm
Back in This Place
Oil on canvas
82 x 82cm
SOLD
The Getaway
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
All Together Now
Oil on linen
120 x 120cm
Just Step In
Oil on canvas
140 x 140cm
Possessed
Acrylic and oil on canvas
140 x 140cm
SOLD
I'M GOING NORTH TO SIT IN A PORTAL
Oil on canvas
50 x 60cm
YOU CAN'T RUN. IT'S COMING FOR YOU
Oil on canvas
60 x 50cm
Triple Threat
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
On Fire in Halves
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
On Connexion
Oil on canvas
120 x 120cm
Sojourn
Oil on canvas
148 x 138cm
Epicene
Oil on canvas
78 x 85cm
SOLD
AnonyMiss
Acrylic and oil on canvas
140 x 140cm
SOLD
She Moves, She
Oil on board
60 x 90cm
SOLD
Move Don’t Move
Oil on board
60 x 90cm
Nightmares Stole My Clothes
Oil on linen
80 x 110cm
The quality of creativity is something I love considering. A link between the subconscious and our perceived reality. A felt Connection that can be treated as matter, moulded into tangents, and sometimes revealed. Creativity in all its arrangements is the sensory abstract attempting to be articulated in a form that transcends everyday language. Thoughts can’t be fully realised until we’ve attempted to share them. The imaginative chaos settling into comprehensible parts while remaining strange. A magical realism trying to speak to Subjectivity. You know that feeling when you wake up from an intense dream that felt full of bizarre and seemingly unrelated features? That’s your intuition making sense of your experience and turning it into an independent film that, as it existed, no one will ever see.
My practice is an attempt to reveal what’s floating around in there, engaging in narratives between reality and imagination. Beginning paintings in abstraction and allowing the work to develop its own form, I bring subconscious and conscious elements together into realised themes of dream-like obscurity, strength, and identity.
Contact Stef Rae to arrange a viewing of available current works.