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Free- Artist
- Fiona Rae born 1963
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 2133 × 1981 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1991
- Reference
- T06481
Technique and condition
Painted in oil on primed cotton canvas, the linked episodes of painting occupies the whole of the canvas.
The artist prepared the canvas by stretching medium weight cotton duck, supplied by Russell & Chapple onto a stretcher made by D.W. Stretchers. The canvas is sized with two coats of rabbit-skin glue and primed with Spectrum Thixotropic Alkyd Primer. The ground colour is thinned oil paint.
Executed over a period of a few days, Rae used artists' oil paint made by Sennelier and Schevengingen, 'Old Holland' paint. These were mixed with a wide variety of painting media including waxes, oils, resin varnishes and alkyd painting media. Rae experimented with these additives to modify the qualities of her paints which she generally applied with brushes, using masking tape to define the flatter hard edged forms. The complex surface incorporates work in charcoal and pastel.
The painting is neither varnished or framed.
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