Nothing to Witness

David Rae

65 x 55 cm | 25 x 21 in


Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags: Neon, Field, Twilight, Coral, Empty


Original painting in oil on canvas, presented in a simple dark wooden frame.

Selected for 2018 RSA New Contemporaries & FBA Futures 2018, David Rae is part of a growing interest in the possibility of unspoken narratives through the use of realism and subtraction. Rae’s paintings offer a remarkable sense of space through the realistic rendition of textures and perspective and behind this curtain of reality the figureless, empty spaces suggest an uneasy absence. The resulting imagery has connotations of an unfinished story or a hidden truth, a simple device to incite curiosity. 


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David Rae

Notable Achievements 2023
Shortlisted for Scottish Landscape Awards 2023 & Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2024.
Notable Achievements 2021

Selected for 2018 RSA New Contemporaries, 2023 RSA Annual Exhibition, shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Awards 2023 and shortlisted for Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2024 - David Rae is part of a growing interest in the possibility of unspoken narratives through the use of realism and subtraction. Rae’s paintings offer a remarkable sense of space through the realistic rendition of textures and perspective and behind this curtain of reality the figureless, empty spaces suggest an uneasy absence. The resulting imagery has connotations of an unfinished story or a hidden truth, a simple device to incite curiosity. This tension between presence and absence is evocative of the empty spaces painted by Turner Prize winner, George Shaw. Famous for his portrayal of the built environment, Shaw shows the dislocated beauty of the urban versus natural world and similarly, Rae’s work suggestively imitates the beauty of human and natural environments while maintaining a perspicuous stillness which is both disquieting and analytical.  


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