Artist Statement

Our Universe is our Perception.
Often, it is in wild places, that we are able to pass through time and space in active consciousness, as we see the world from different perspectives: looking down from a hilltop, or out across the sea towards the horizon.
Sailing, walking, swimming, climbing, exploring - all offer us the experience of time and reflection, where nature is both muse and guide - and during a climate of great uncertainty, presents opportunities for a vital form of wonder. In the context of a world saturated in fast and short, digital influences - my work is consciously physical and created gradually- over weeks and sometimes years, aiming to provoke questions with the richness of materiality and time.

Bio

Rachael is a British artist living and working in the North Yorkshire coastal area, flanked by the sea and ancient woodlands.
Her expressionist style of allegorical paintings in mainly acrylic and oils, are concerned with the experience of living, responding to intangible moments, difficult to express in words, for example: the sensation of moving through time, light and colour from a boat. Edvard Munch, and Pierre Bonnard were key early influences.
Born in 1977, she graduated from Leeds University in 2001 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, followed by a sustained period painting life models and ‘en plein air’ landscapes. In 2006 she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in printmaking leading to commissions and collaborations. After some time setting up artist’s studios in Northumberland, and North Yorkshire, Rachael is Co-Director of Red Studios, and is now emerging as a new, contemporary British painter. Recent nominations include the Jacksons Painting Prize- 2021, 2022 and 2023.