An artist’s artist, she believes in the basic training of drawing and observation through real first hand experience. This has become the foundation for her working practice. She paints all three key genres of plein air landscapes, first hand portraits and still life. In the current climate of conceptual British art, Rachel chooses to focus on content and atmosphere, capturing and recording essential emotional responses to the environment she lives in. All her paintings are done alla prima, after a sustained period of study drawing. They therefore retain a freshness and fluidity of mark making.