Ida-Rally

For any further informations regarding Ida Rally please contact Email: idarally2000@hotmail.com 

Youtube short digital art 

Mobile phone: 07941173591

Q.  Ida,  what made you get into virtual computer art from just painting with the real brush?

A.  To me digital art has been a slow process to acquire. It started when I was trying to        illustrate cards on computer.  In studying to advertise art,  I was fascinated by the tricks of  manipulating photos. Moreover, I was puzzled on how traditional art such as etching-drawing could be freely mingled with a computirezed (software) technique. As to create a new experimental vision effective and "dynamique" visually.

Q. Isn't that perhaps new device ways to make traditional art out of date?

A.  Perhaps we become a little over anxious to the thought that activities persued by the artisans alike, so to speak, by whom manual touch is required, as well as by our old masters, could become obsolete in the future, but that is not the case at all. Basically there'll be always need to observe and record manually the natural world. 

Q. Is the future then in the hands of AI, do you reckon?

A. At the present time I am not going any near to AI myself.  My knowlwdge is confined to photoshop software. To me a computer is my personal assistant in a useful way. It gives me suggestions on solutions for image making. In a few words, in aid to what before was done manually with photocopiers and collages in the preparation to the ultimate depiction of the canvas. But then again there so many surprises in store for us!

Short interview with Ben Luke (ES) and Ida Rally

Ida Rally is based in London. She trained as a painter and in visual studies at the School of Art and Design in London. Her skills and training in painting & printing are intuitive and derivative of contemporary art disciplines rather than an accomplishment of academic achievements.


Ida Rally - exhibitions and projects:


Alexandra Palace Garden Centre Gallery - London - Summer 1996

Italian European Academy – Italian group exhibition - London - Summer 1997


Gallery Il Bottaccio - West End (solo exhibition) - London - Summer 2004
www.artshole.co.uk/idarally.htm (small paintings online) London 2005
Art&Design Online Gallery (portfolio) USA 2005
ARTROM Rome - JUST PAINT 2006 (competition online)
Groupo Virtuart Expo pequeno formato in Granollers - Spain - May 2006
The Light theme Poland June 2006 (competition online)
artists.htm (swimming pool project- competition online) London 2006
The Vulva Museum Online – Seattle (USA) 2006

Calendar 2007 (Polish publishing project)

I paint what is real for me and what I feel…” An object, a landscape, a window open to infinity... a world that I perceive with my senses and imagination. For instance, a flower could become the object of desire, the focal point of interest and by the gesture of painting it I project my own visual space in the image I make. When ancient myths and legends fascinate me... the composition in the painting become more symbolic and figurative.

My favourite artists from last century:

Artemisia Gentileschi as one of the greatest female renaissance artist

Vincent Van Gogh for his lyricism (a mark of his own)

Henri Matisse as one of the greatest colourist (fauvist)

Frida Kahlo for her imagination (surrealist)

Georgia O'Keeffe for her modern vision of form (abstractist)

Helen Chadwick for her visual sense of science (body matters)

Rebecca Horn for her vision of a world of metaphor, legend, and alchemy(kinetic sculptures and installations)

Ida's paintings could be said to be a progressive work toward a figurative symbolism of its kind. Legends and traces of memories are the source of her inspiration. Her ideas contained in a bi-dimensional space of her own idealized vision, resulting in an intimate atmosphere, aloof from dream and legend.