Experience an artist’s process from initial ideas to finished pieces. Between December 2024 and May 2025, Rachel Gabriel will be painting an entirely new body of work to launch at Art Weeks 2025. As you move around the room, you will experience the development of her exhibition - starting with written ideas and intentions, sketchbook studies and an inspiration board, and ending with a cohesive range of final art works on cradled wood panels.

Rachel’s vibrant, colourful semi-abstract landscapes have been described as “bursting with volcanic colour under bold blue skies”. They are inspired by her love of the outside world after being housebound for the past four years with chronic fatigue. She infuses every piece with the energy, colour and joy she feels about being alive.

Rachel's award-winning career as a writer/producer of digital media and TV always involved combining her two loves of art and writing. Now that she can no longer write because of chronic fatigue, she is focusing on her art but is still fascinated by trying to find ways to inject language into landscapes.

Rachel will be exhibiting above Conways on George street Oxford - at the opticians that saved her eyesight two years ago. She has invited two very talented art friends - Alice Kwan and Tim Kapp - to join her. Visit Conways in the first two weeks of May for three rooms packed with original art, prints and cards.