Artist Statement:
Rachael is a contemporary painter based at Rogue Artists’ studios in Manchester. Her practice is fundamentally a mark making process in which she creates abstract landscapes by applying a multitude of painted layers and patterns to the surface of canvas and paper.
Her formative years, spent between the Lake District and Asia had an important inspiration on the process, colours and aesthetic of her work.
Throughout this time, Zen Buddhism imprinted itself as an influence on her distinctive mark making process. Also heavily influenced by 1950’s abstract expressionism painters, the philosophies from these cultures and movements began to mould and shape her style and attitude to the painted surface.
Rachael’s current paintings seek to establish a contemplative and meditative aspect both for the viewer and for herself. She uses unconventional processes to create her paintings, abandoning paintbrushes for found and recycled materials such as discarded fragments of toys.
Rachael’s paintings have a deep connection to the beauty within our environment and are often reminiscent of geographic landscapes. Rachael has found she has a human connection with the act of painting and through the movement of repetition creates a visual poetry within the works, often subconsciously.
Following her degree in Fine art, Rachael completed the three year postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She is a re-emerging artist, following a break from painting she began to paint seriously again in 2018.
As well as exhibiting UK wide, selling her paintings nationally and internationally, her work has been accepted into several exhibitions. This includes the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2021, Ing Discerning Eye, Visual art Open and the Art Gemini Prize 2021 in which she won the People’s choice award. Rachael was a featured artist in the BBC documentary about the Royal Academy summer exhibition 2020. Rachael is delighted to have recently won the accolade of “Manc of the Year” with Cotton Manchester.
Alongside painting, Rachael is a lecturer in Fine art.
PRICES OF WORK ON DISPLAY:
Flum Flum Tree – Acrylic on Canvas – 100 cm by 100cm – £1,500
Iron Filings – Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,500
Transfiguration of Deep – Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm in Diameter – £1,600
Meditation of Pink – Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 120cm – £1,500
In Between the Palms- Acrylic on Canvas – 100 cm by 100cm – £1,500
Jumping into Happiness- Acrylic on Canvas- 100cm by 120 cm – £1,600
Marbelous Nile- Acrylic on Canvas- 100cm by 150cm – £1,700
Kung Hey Fat Choi – Acrylic on Canvas – 100 cm by 120 cm – £1,600
Global Contemplation – Acrylic on canvas – 100 cm in diameter – £1,600
Silent Pool 1 – Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,500
Aberfalls- Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,300
Cooee- Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,500
Euphoria – Acrylic on canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,500
Flores- Acrylic on canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,500
Searching for Paradise – Acrylic on canvas – 900cm in diameter – £1,500
Paradise Found – Acrylic on Canvas – 900 cm in diameter – £1,500
Pink Water Fields – Acrylic on Canvas – 80cm by 60 cm – £450
Glass Galaxy – Acrylic on Canvas – 40 cm in diameter – £160
Sting – Acrylic on canvas – 40cm in diameter – £160
Red Sea – Acrylic on Canvas – 40 cm in diameter – £160
Abney – Acrylic on canvas – 61 cm by 61cm – £160
Contemplation of dots – Acrylic on Canvas- 30 cm in diameter – £100
Micro Silent Pool 1 – Acrylic on Canvas – 35 cm by 28 cm – £100
Micro Silent Pool – Acrylic on Canvas – 35cm by 28 cm – £100
Causeway Bay – Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 50 cm – £250
Mediation of Yellow – Acrylic on Canvas – 100cm by 100cm – £1,500
Gilli Tuwan Gang – Acrylic on canvas – 75 cm by 50 cm – £450
The Promise – Acrylic on Canvas – 100 by 120cm – £1600
In Between the Palms – Acrylic on Canvas – 100 cm by 120 cm – £1500
Works on Paper
A1 Paintings Numbers 1- 10 – £100
A1 Paintings Framed Numbers 1-5 – £120
A2 Paintings Numbers 1- 20 – £50
A2 Paintings Framed Numbers 1- 5 – £70
A2 Collage un Framed – Ink on Paper – £80
A2 Collage framed – Ink on Paper – £100
