"We have the right to define our own happpiness. I don't think it matters who you are, or what your position is in life, you have the responsibility to find out who you are and do what you can do to develop yourself. All work is honourable and in a sense a form of art."
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Rae Perlin was born in 1910 and grew up in Newfoundland.
Her studies took her far afield where she could persue her love of the arts under professional guidance. In the 1940's she studied in the USA under Samual Brecher and Hans Hofmann. Her studies and influences continued in Paris and other parts of Europe throughout the 1950's.
Rae Perlin was one of the first professional artist in Newfoundland. Her work is prolific, mostly sketches, drawings and small works. Impressions executed with a few well directed strokes and washes of colour producing delightful spontaneous images.
The teachings of Hofmann can be seen in many pieces with the lines of spatial planes, the push and pull of plasticity and negative space.
Rae's work has been extensively exhibited, including a retrospective of her work at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1998.
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