Meet the Artist

I'm Rachel — an artist living in Cornwall, though I wasn't born here. I came from the West Midlands in my twenties, and the coast did something to me that I'm still trying to put into words.

I think that's actually why I make art.

The light here moves so quickly. The colours shift before you've finished looking at them. I take hundreds of photographs because there's no other way to catch it — by the time you'd set up a canvas, it's gone. Those photographs became the foundation of everything: the digital prints I make now, the fibre and textile work of the last five years, and the paintings that are just beginning to emerge.

My work isn't really about Cornwall as a place. It's about a feeling — the particular quality of being somewhere beautiful and being suddenly, completely present. That feeling of the world going briefly still. I think a lot of people know it. I think a lot of people are quietly hungry for it.

If something I've made stops you for a moment, that's enough. That's exactly what it's for.