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 never left!

It might sound cliché, but Cornwall really does have its own brand of magic. It doesn’t just offer beautiful views, there really is a different energy here. 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. These fleeting moments are the seeds of inspiration for my art and the photos allow me to revisit them whenever I want to.  

Those photographs have formed a treasure trove of memories and become 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 - those little moments of joy, bliss and aliveness in nature that bring us peace from the noise and overwhelm of the human world.

I think we need moments like these more and more these days and my aim is to help share them through my artwork. At the heart of everything I create is a simple intention: to hold onto a feeling and share the quiet wonder that nature offers us every day.