Barcelona’s Rai Escalé blows minds with her ‘Dames’ and ‘Saints’ painting series. Each painting is jarring and thought-provoking in its own right, and rely on a extensive use of texture and layering to create nightmarish visions of the female form. Emotionally charged and full of life, these images suggest the artist has a much darker side that comes out in the vigorous brush strokes and deep cavernous gaze of the subject…