When Charles Saatchi purchased her painting of Diana, Princess of Wales; Hi Paul Can You Come Over for the "New Blood" exhibition, Stella Vine was propelled into the centre of a media frenzy and several aspects of her life story were vastly promoted through the English media and tabloid tale telling. Somehow in all this temporary fiction, the main point got lost - the work itself. "Her paintings, however, directs er gaze to a cast of enigmatic characters to whom she is irresistibly drawn. These iconic figures, whose auras are photostatted onto our collective consciousness."