Rachel Lockwood SWLA

Statement

Rachel Lockwood's work is formed by what surrounds her, with an emphasis on the natural world and our relationship with it. Fortunately Rachel lives in an area that is incredibly diverse, with forests, huge skies, marshland and waterways. People come from far and wide to gaze upon this landscape and it is the memories and feelings of this that we keep within that interests her. This is what Rachel tries to drag out of her head, a condensed image of what she has seen and felt.

Forests in particular are becoming more significant to Rachel as these spaces force us to use even more of our primal senses. Rachel recently spent a year painting the changing seasons in a local forest which gave her the opportunity to stop and absorb the movement, sounds and colour within it. One of the things Rachel realised was how the mind works to fill in the spaces of things we hear and things we think we've seen.

Methodology

Rachel works mostly in oils as she likes the diversity of the material which allows her to sculpt or use glazes depending on the energy she is trying to create.

Bio

Born in Sheffield in July 1966

Started to paint at the age of 5 in-between running wild and wanting to live like Tarzan

1984 Psalter Lane Art College, Sheffield

1985-89 BA Middlesex Poly (Hornsey College of Art) London