Rachel's experimental and innovative work stems from a life long fascination with human biology, physiology and psychology and its cyclical nature. A long career in Optometry has honed her eye to see the world around her from both the micro and macro perspective. 

 

By pushing porcelain to its limits using multiple techniques and in combination with other materials including metal, paper and glass, much of her work is made through repetitive evolutionary experimentation. 

 

The result is clutches of lively, colourful elements, curated and constructed to evoke the combination of atoms, cells and molecules forming into organisms and communities. 

 

Her feeling of joy - brought by the immediacy of manipulating clay - combines with the frustrations of a sometimes unpredictable and fragile medium. This tension is mirrored in the bold joyful shapes and colours of her work, in contrast to their delicate, multi-layered, sometimes tangled, compositions - reflecting the complex ecosystems and societies we live in.