Rina Freiberg’s wild expressionist faces and vibrant abstracts are a translation of emotion and a playful disassembling of human interaction. Bold brushwork, hard lines and quirky etchings feature in both her drawing and painting work.

Rina’s process is anchored in the unplanned. She works at pace, allowing the temperament of the medium at hand to dictate the direction of the work. 

“I am often asked where the faces in my work come from. I don’t have an answer. I started drawing faces when I was sixteen. I found painting at twenty-one. I draw faces every day and I draw faces in a way that makes sense to me. I don’t know who they are. I don’t think about it. It is not important. Deciphering the face is the first language we know as humans. It is the ultimate language. Science says that we never dream of faces that we have not seen in real life – and I wonder whether the same is true for faces that I paint.”