Rachel Gracey: Seeds of Flourishing, 2024

About the artist

Rachel Gracey (UK, born 1968) trained at Wimbledon School of Art. Using Lithography, Gracey breathes light between the shifting forms of rural or urban landscapes and seascapes.

Gracey depicts windows into vistas that constitute moments in a journey. They are the connective lines throughout her works. From lively adventures to explorations of energy, form and colour, Gracey draws us into her way of looking, feeling and experiencing. She enables us to see beyond the simple surface, into the often sublime spaces that nature offers up, quietly and powerfully.

Gracey is absorbed and enthralled by the process and power of printmaking. The making allows for a level of experimentation and collaboration which results in a practice which is constantly labile and sometimes throws up unexpected results. It reflects Gracey’s own desire to go beyond mere observation and her commitment to explore and reveal the unseen. As her subject is landscape, delving into process can result in works that are uniquely evocative stirring memories in the artist and viewer alike as shifting thoughts seek out recognisable forms and places.

‘Seeds of Flourishing’ is one of series of large lithographs that are a reflection on my daughters as they become adults and prepare to move on. Using the language of line and structure, recognisable shape and fractured patterns, I have tried to represent their growth, freedom and optimisim for the future.