Book Artist, Painter and Illustrator
Rachael is a book-artist, painter and illustrator.
She uses hand-crafted methods, including screen-printing, painting and collage, to create both abstract and narrative works. She particularly enjoys blending found imagery with hand-painted details and creating complex compositions using colour, shape and pattern. Her work is presented as prints, scrolls and artist’s books to allow alternative ways of engaging with the work.
A range of themes are explored in her work, particularly: scales of space (the human, the cosmic and the microscopic); cultural stories of the skies; our human relationship with time; visualising historic, social and political narratives, and creating abstract maps. Her work is full of symbolism and layered meanings that are intended to deepen the audiences’ experience of her work, and where relevant encourage reflection and activism.
Her work is informed by her career in architectural design in the UK and in Australia, by her work as an educator at Portsmouth School of Architecture, by her experience as an art teacher in inner-London secondary schools, and by years of political and environmental campaigning.
