Rachel’s paintings explore the experience of light, optical trickery, and pattern. Keenly influenced by issues concerning the environment and our effect upon it, she creates lyrical records of the landscape that celebrate both the beauty and fragility of the natural world.

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Rachel completed her Foundation Course in Fine Art at City and Guilds Art School, before going on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Upon graduation she returned to painting, but the ideas experienced at this time continue to inform her work.

She has exhibited widely, with solo shows held in London, Belfast and the South West. She is based near Stroud.

2021 Longlist, Jackson’s Painting Prize

2019 Royal Academy Summer Show

2018 Derwent Art Prize