Barbara Rae @ Adam Gallery, London

Known for her use of bright and contrasting colour, Barbara Rae’s paintings combine the influence of landscape and travel with painterly abstraction. A sense of place has always been important to Rae – in particular, the human traces and patterns of history that are left on a landscape. At the same time, the structure of a landscape is simply the starting-point for an experimental studio process, involving paint, colour and collage that borders on abstraction. Her ‘pure pleasure of painting’ is evident in these dynamic and experimental works.