Rae was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and has lived in many different parts of the world. The ever changing lifestyles, combined with experience with different cultures, and seeing a variety of art styles in person is what has influenced her art work. She has spent the earlier parts of her life growing up in Indonesia, Tokyo, Belgrade, Athens, and Prague, and currently is living in the Washington DC area for the past 13 years.
Major influences on her artwork include the impressionist, the expressionist, classic woodblock print to the modern pop culture of Japan such as manga comics. Her life as a child included many serene moments but also challenges as political turmoil took hold in Belgrade and in her own home country.
In her current series of paintings her whimsical nature show through the abstraction of geometric and organic lines placed in juxtaposed positions and her playfulness is conveyed through the color palette.
