After having a break, Raine has recently returned to her love of painting and though painting people is her first love, she is venturing into the landscape and seascape scene and is exploring the Scottish Highlands and rugged coastlines in search of new subjects.

When painting portraits Raine likes to work predominantly with oil paints as she finds them most versatile for blending skin tones and being slow-drying they are great for re-touching. Facial expressions are very important to her as they can be interpreted in so many ways by individuals. She is continually seeking out elderly people with wrinkly, weathered and fascinating faces to portray their stories on canvass.

Her seascapes and landscapes very much reflect the Scottish weather and she likes to incorporate all the hues and changing light sequences by using vibrant, bold colours.