Rachael is a British artist who was grew up in Hampshire and attended Winchester School of Art. After finishing her degree, she ran her own textile design business, producing designs and concepts for the home furnishing market, selling worldwide (1977-2001). During those years she lectured at degree and foundation level in several universities.

She travels to collect ideas, but her inspiration comes mainly from her immediate environment. She lives by the sea in Teignmouth, a Victorian seaside town in Devon. Her garden is adjacent to that part of the estuary where salt water meets fresh, and everywhere land melts into sea. It is an intimate place of constant physical change and busy human activity, grand sweeping views juxtaposed against the bustle of commerce – a place of incredible excitement within the smallness of the everyday.

She is interested in the liminal spaces within landscape created by natural transitions; those uncertain, indeterminate spaces caught between one world and another. Her work is descriptive of form, light and place in an atmospheric way.

After developing her initial concept - choosing a poem, visual reference, or emotional aspect she takes photographs and makes notes/drawings using words to consolidate her thoughts and desired outcome. She works on several pieces at once, usually 4 at a time, so that they can “talk’ to each other during the making and so she balances the intensity of the process and allows waiting time of alchemy of process and materials to evolve.