Francesca Raft joins Artsite Contemporary represented artists.

A former model, Francesca Raft’s travels took her around the world, and her works are reflective of serenity and turbulence, of mood and emotion, of places she has been.

“I remember when I was young and modelling in New York, the intensity of the storms that used to come over,” she says, “the incredible deep, rich blues and greens that I’d never seen anywhere before. Rome is incredible, too; those skyscapes tend to creep in to my work, I see them later.

Through her attic studio window in Newtown, storm-filled skies find their way into the interior landscapes of artist Francesca’s mind and from there on to canvas, where the rest of us can see for ourselves what mood looks like in painted form.
“They tend to be inspirational,” she says of her artworks. “When I paint, even though I might have an idea in mind, they come from somewhere else – they’re almost like what I need, as well?”

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