Desi-Rae Campbell

Berlin, New Hampshire

Desi-Rae Campbell uses oil on canvas and linen to create both abstracts, as well as, real/surreal portraiture.

Using organic GOTS-certified fair-trade cotton and handmade reclaimed wood stretchers for her oil paintings, Desi-Rae has a keen interest in setting the example in her use of materials that are kind to the planet and those involved in their making, pioneering this philosophy in the fine art landscape.

Desi-Rae's relationship to her art is akin to that of her feet to the ground: she is always in contact with it, and it supports her wherever her journey takes her. She can't recall a time where she didn't want to create through some medium. Yet, Desi-Rae didn’t quite focus on her artistic side until she felt called to do so.

Desi-Rae Campbell received national awards at a young age as an outstanding Jamaican youth artist, is primarily self-taught, and was born and raised on the island of Jamaica in the West Indies where she attended Campion College in the country's capital - Kingston, mainly studying the sciences and discovering art in her spare time.
She further completed studies in biology and fine art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and business at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Desi-Rae has dialogued about free speech, privacy, and decentralization through her intellectual work. She is currently intellectually interested in grounding spiritual and emotional concepts into practical solutions, such as conscious spending. Desi-Rae worked as a commercial fisheries observer for two years, which directly impacted her personal ethics regarding food.

Desi-Rae hopes her art is inspiring, entertaining, or thought-provoking in some way. Her favourite mediums are oils and pastels. After conducting research highlighting the need in the fine art industry for sustainably and ethically produced art materials, Desi-Rae has a keen interest in setting the example in her use of materials that are kind to the planet and those involved in their making, pioneering this philosophy in the fine art landscape.

Desi-Rae's visual work is a way for her to observe and mimic the arrangements of light and space around her that she finds interesting, to release her thoughts in the form of imagery, to sound her message into the world. Her first love is portraiture. Her second is abstraction. Her ultimate canvas is life itself, the grand play in which we all take part.

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