Rachel Cronin's evocative abstract landscapes are a response to the environment by exploring dynamic colours and experimental mark making. Working from sketchbooks she records her surroundings, field lines, hedgerows, and patterns of perspective with a painting in mind.
Herpaintings are concerned with the way the past intrudes upon the present. Symbols, signs, animal tracks, and claw marks mix with telegraph poles, gates, and fenceposts as we search for ways to remember who we once were by seeking out the wild face of our surroundings.

"Though we may not be permanent, either individually or collectively, there is solace to be found in the reliable cycles of the natural world and perhaps one of the legacies of the last few years will be a move towards a more natural and sustainable way of life, not just in the environmental sense but also by abandoning the cycle of busyness and burn out that keeps us estranged from the feel of the earth beneath our feet.”

Rachel graduated in 2001 from Hull school of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art and has been working in a variety of media for nearly twenty years. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK and in 2019 was the winner of the JS Fine Art prize for work in 2D and in 2021 was the winner of the Mary Moser Prize.