At 18 Rianna has already established an enviable reputation, with works exhibited on-line through the Saatchi Gallery and hanging in the Millennium Stadium and Bath Rugby Club as well as the eight-week run in London ‘Rugby: Size Really Does Matter’ during the RBS Six Nations tournament in 2009.
Rianna’s sporting interest was combined with her art whilst trying to raise funds to benefit the late former Tynedale player Ali Johnson who sustained severe neck injuries when a scrum collapsed on him in 2004. Producing large scale portraits of rugby greats Rianna raised considerable funds for the Great North Air Ambulance.
Whilst elements of the ‘Size Matters’ exhibition will be shown at Weston, Rianna has developed portraiture on the female form and this is an emotive collection.
Rianna comments: “It comprises a variety of compositions, and use of both colour and strong overdrawing to portray the many emotions. I have focused on the many facets of the female perspective, reflecting on the obvious feelings such as sadness and happiness to those innate feelings of confidence, strength to shyness, fear and rejection.”
With influences as varied as Lucian Freud, Roy Lichtenstein and Jenny Saville, Rianna Lane’s work takes its inspiration from the worlds of fashion and music.
Gareth Williams, Curator to the Weston Park Foundation comments: “We are thrilled to be showing Rianna Lane’s work in the Granary Art Gallery. She is undoubtedly one of the brightest young talents in portraiture as these recent works clearly show.”
Rianna Lane’s work will be on display and available for sale in the Granary Art Gallery daily throughout February 2010. Admission is free. All commission from sales contributes directly to Weston’s learning programme in which over 7,000 school children take part annually.
For further information please visit www.weston-park.com
