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About the artist:
Rachel Gracey’s subject matter is the outdoor world: rivers and their surroundings, parks, coastlines, woods and hills. Through her gestural marks, semi-abstracted forms and strong use of colour, Gracey articulates not just what is physically there but the less tangible and more transient features of an environment: atmosphere, light, sound, movement and the thoughts and feelings that a moment in nature can evoke.
“I watch and see the impact nature and space has on people, and would somehow like to capture and represent this. I use lithography and relief printing to produce images that prompt memories, recognition, resonance; reminders of things we see but possibly don’t register.”
Gracey is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Curator of the Royal Engravers Prints at the Ashmolean Museum. Her work is held in the Royal Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, The British Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Ashmolean Museum and Guanlan Printmaking Museum, China.
