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Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Artist
Location	North Yorkshire/South East London, United Kingdom
Introduction	Rhea is a British fine artist working on canvas in oils and mixed media from her farmhouse studio on the North Yorkshire Moors, and also S/E London. Consistently under commission, she explores the use of textiles, mixed media, and traditional painting techniques in a 2D format, exploring a broad range of subject matters, most recently, allegorical and fairy stories, executed in a fairly narrative, illustrative way. With a ‘nod’ to kitsch, and a ‘wink’ at irony, they revel in the playful, disarming qualities that humour lends to an artwork, actually underpinning it's sincerity. All this is done with a subtlety, and a sensitive regard for what, in essence, makes a really great artwork. Utilising dated fabrics, salvaged items, household paints, innovative stencilling methods, traditional painting techniques and juxtaposing figuration and abstraction, Rhea describes her process as a means to produce exciting, opulent, sensitive and sensual paintings that aim to take the audience on a silent roller coaster ride of thematic tension, touching on historical, allegorical, fantastical narratives, pitched against the mundane and homogenous.
Interests	“My work is about conflict, contrasts and subversion. Living rurally, I often experience inner conflicts between feelings of peace, revelling at the majesty of nature and conversely, feeling overwhelmed and isolated by the vast expanse of nothingness encompassing me. In my paintings I want to explore these and other conflicts of opposites – town and country, masculine and feminine energies, innocent themes subverted by dark, sinister undertones.”