Barbara Rae is a british artist who specialises in printmaking and painting. Her work is often abstract or painterly printwork which uses an instense colour scheme with colours that often constrast or compliment each other without distracting from the intensity of the piece. Her pieces often resemble abstract landscapes which are heavily inspired by her home and its surroundings in west Scotland.
To create her pieces she will first create observationsl sketches on site to experiment with the composition and develop her idea, she will then convert these observational studies into print work or an absract painting. 
Rae uses a variety of different print techniques and painterly styles, one of which includes collagraph printing and etching. Her piece 'harbour night' is a collagraph print which has been developed further through etchings. This is a larger piece which Rae has thought about very carefully, using an interesting and vivid colour pallet that is still very limited in the different shades and hues of colour. Her work has influenced me to create a range of smaller collagraph prints in a similar style using the same limited colour schemes as her work.
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