The artist Rae Richards died on April 20 at the age of 96 after almost 70 years of involvement with the Newcastle art scene. Her paintings, sourced from a great number of exhibitions held in the Newcastle area, decorate many of our walls. But her most visible artwork is surely the suite of fabric banners commissioned for the nave and chancel of Christ Church Cathedral.
The making of art defined Rae as a person. She was as entirely happy painting a rocking horse in posies of flowers as she was in capturing a favourite landscape in knifed-on slabs of oil paint.
