LOT 44 - Leah Rainey

Dianna Witte Gallery

Title: Still midnight (study)

Dimensions: 18" x 18"

Medium: Oil on canvas over panel

Date: 2024

Leah Rainey is a Toronto based painter who works within a combined tradition of process painting and direct painting to create distilled abstract or semi-abstract compositions that evolve through many iterations. Working with a reductive process of editing to explore the visual space around and between things, Rainey observes and reveals that which is often overlooked; what we unconsciously register. Her paintings celebrate a world outside of any recognizable narrative while hinting at the familiar. Leah Rainey grew up in rural Ontario. She attended Loughborough College of Art and Design and received her BA Honours in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.