Fiona Rae - 'I Never Think of Painting as Old Fashioned' | Artist Interview | TateShots 

Oh my gawd - that paint tube roller squeezer - that long palette - that secret liquid medium - that paint brush rolling tableau ... that studio ... when you got the tools right.

I was watching this and I started to imagine the smell of the studio. Brings back memories

I have just been watching a bunch of these Tate shorts and have really enjoyed them. Thaty are beautifully put together and each has had something quite unexpected. Great series. Have just subscribed.....now to look at a few more. Thanks

I thoroughly enjoy seeing artists in their own painting den, talking about their work or style, just listening to their thoughts while panning round for a jolly good nose is so relaxing, and it inspires me to keep on painting - purely to see what the painting reflects back at me. Such an intriguing conversation to have. xxx

Thanks - we love Fiona Rae too!

Really enjoyed this video, deff inspires me to keep going and continue being happy that people even take a second to look at your art, even if they don’t like it. I rather my art bring out some kind of emotion than just be “blah”. Thank you Fiona Rae

What a charming person...

Wonderful! Thank you for the tips about the mediums and brushes, etc.

Hi pues13, Our conservation department tells us that 'Shellsol' (a proprietory product made by the Shell oil company), is a manufactured Turpentine substitute derived from petroleum. Because it is manufactured it is a lot purer than Turps, which can sometimes leave an oily residue. Importantly, if you are thinking of using any Shellsol product in your work, be sure to check the MSDF sheet which will give you information on health and safety. Best wishes, Tate

Thank you for this video. It was so interesting to see this. Greetings from artist from The Czech republic ❤️

Love all her paintings, it makes me feel happy looking at them. ❤️

LOVE your style!

Fiona love that palettes! And the lucky dinosaur, the artwork is very beautiful,lots of interesting images, and symbolism!

I had the pleasure of visiting her solo exhibition in Leeds 2012. Mesmerizing. Wonderful stuff.

Beautiful artwork! this is so wonderful and impressive~!!🎨

love her work. I'm feeling her style.

I love her Studio

It's very enjoyable to see artist's studio. Cheers!

Nice thought and comment at the end.

I love it !

Excellent clarity no ego thank u

that is inspirational, i needed to see that, i edit my own films and i am challenged. this inspires me to simply make another splice :) thank you Fiona.

Whau really great way of working and allowing things to happen and father tools and ideas in a playfull and random way. I really like that - and great paintings filled with play, joy, humour, beauty , poetry and just life - thank you very much

That work shop is like heaven to me So much to do One day I will have my own art work shop

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The more I see of Fiona Rae's work the more I love it. More more

I am from old delhi in India...you are so beautiful and your set up I really amazed after watching all your passion for your art and I will share you my son's sketching...

So beautiful excellent

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Thank you

interesting compilation of techniques , genre ...

Wonderful coloristic!

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@Lytton333 ....YES! That is what I was trying to say above......

wonderful work, thank you for the peek inside your studio and process.

Compmaturism sometimes explores that part of beauty which is covered in routine, craftsmanship, and speculation. Therefore, the eyes of many collectors are turned to the Compmaturism of the new trend in order to experience something truly.

L o ve her paintings

I've been using ultra-pure lamp oil as a thinner for 20 years and I'd never use anything else. Absolutely odorless and so much safer than official painting mediums. No problems at all with using it.

Paint as old fashioned is inconceivable to me

Cool stuff.

I have an old fashioned crush on Fiona.

Painting is good for the soul 🎨🎨🎨🖼🖼

very nice

Not old fashioned. Beautiful, summery, quirky. It is like walking up to a big stream where a willow tree would be (slightly hidden) except it is a beautiful tree with a loving secret, small flowers that are alive and vibrant from another planet. Beautiful work. I love it,!

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Grande Fiona!!!! :)

I can’t believe this was 12 years ago

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Saw Fiona Rai's work at a show in the nineties alongside Gary humes door paintings it was a strong show,two totally different approaches to painting,her work in this show was stronger,I feel to her present work,but its a tough old game,jumping through hoops,trying to reinvent yourself whilst at the same time having a brand identity for the galleries and art world.At least they have managed to keep going.Is it any good as painting and can it really stand on its own? only time can tell.

Where do I get one of those paint tube squishers, I neeeeeeed one.

True.

what kind of paint you used ? the brand name please?

None on display right now I'm afraid - sorry :-(

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0:35 what is the name of that thing?

I like ur style baby!

01:06 The blue rabbit in the background painting!

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A lot of nice brushes and expensive oil paints but output is... While there are a lot of other artists who have very limited resources but their creations are really stunning. So, i guess what really matters is creativity, and not how much materials you have.

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magnificent access to an artist of the highest caliber

Good point on video today being as old fashioned as painting, I just wish her work wasn't so derivative of Polk, Dunham, Condo, Scharf, et al.. Painting world needs to take a decade long moratorium on combo-ing abstraction with cartoons.

OMG, 12 YEARS AGO?

she just squeezed a hole tube out like it was nothing, thats a years supply for me

Well.. refreshingly free of cant and art-speak.. She just loves painting, you can tell... to get mucky with it and dive in.. Good luck to her..

Did she say Shelf Oil as a turpentine substitute? where would one get such a thing I wonder?

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should have subtitles in Portuguese.

This is the first female artist that .. I....oh, forget it...I'll get myself in trouble. I will just say...WoW. wow, wow, wow

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She’s got one helluva lot of space - even for Hackney. Some of the great impressionists would have given an arm and a leg for a working environment like that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NYiCFibANJo.html

shellz oil? schelz oil? what is that .i know im spelling it wrong.sorry

Well Pretty much impossible to love her whole aura, spirit, demeanor, attitude, outlook, and God Damn is she all sorts of sexy too. As a wannabe artist that came back to it after 25++ years being a wannabe Gordon Gecko . But I am so with you on the large mixing table, but you went to a whol-nother level of awesomeness with the table-O-Brushes. Its only been a decade and a few years..would it still be creepy if I ponouced my obsession , now!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA clearly I am a big fan now. STAY SMILIN' Davy.STUN

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bet that studio is long gone

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She is so beautiful.

Fashion is shallow. Art shouldn’t be equated with fashion. It dilutes it’s importance and everything it is meant to be. Fashion is trivia.

These works owe more to graphics than painting. She does not consider the main aspect of painting, that of the integrity of the surface. Her work will therefor remain weak in comparison to real painting. Its basically gallery fodder work with a high price tag attached. Well done Fiona, I am jealous; never in the field of artistic endeavour has so much been paid for so little.

Her paintings aren't banal or ugly enough to be masterpeices of modern art.

Who was suggesting that painting was old-fashioned anyway?

Sometimes less is more

Anyone who would even associate painting with old fashioned knows nothing about painting.

less talk more pictures would be interesting!

She seems too worried about fashion, whats fashionable and what is not. Art could be about going against fashion.

Her art-work is unimpressive... why there are soo many likes for her work ?

shes really worried by the fear of becoming 'old fashioned', a worry of not belonging to her time

She is just a comercial “artist” only pleasing a very profitable market. Painting is dead and it’s only real function is to keep sustaining a bunch of galleries and their wealthy costumers. Their is not real and fundamental content in her work, only an style that is mainly about decoration.

I don't know why Fiona Rae is concerned with whether painting or poetry are old fashioned. Is this anxiety caused by the pernicious influence of Tate Gallery staff? One should paint because one has something to say, not for the approval of Tate Gallery staff or anyone else.

a 13 year old playing make belief artist, thanks postmodernism the absurdity of existence remains untouched !

I bet that doesn't just get shoved up against her bed room wall, paint side down.

She is sweet.

i like fiona rae but i don't really believe in what she has say about painting and poetics, to me its kitch romantism which is so far removed from the roots of poetry and romanticism. a painter who considers this cant possibly go on to speak about painting as an equal contempory force in a post modernist age. again i like her but i don't believe her to be a great comtempory with the recognition of the tate

Completely ignorant of the technique. of painting. Large simplistic decoration and poster like cartoonish daubs.

What a waste of paint and time and money.

but why are you doing the same paintings all the time? you can do better, be brave and try something else