Rachael Bacon

Education
2023-2024 Turps Banana Correspondence Painting
2006-2008 Q.E.S.T Scholarship - Intaglio Printmaking
1998-2001 Fine Art BA (Hons) Leeds University

Artists’ Statement
My paintings, drawings and prints, investigate our relationship with the land, responding to intangible moments, difficult to express in words. Often, it is in wild places, that we are able to pass through land and time in active consciousness, as we see the world from different perspectives: out over a constellation of reflections from a boat, or looking down from a hilltop across an atlas of form and space. These opportunities give time for a vital form of wonder forming the starting point for many of my paintings.
Working primarily in oil paints for the rich, and dynamic nature, my expressionist paintings have been influenced by the Northern Symbolist painters Harald Sohlberg & Edvard Munch, Edward Hoppers story telling paintings, and Howard Hodgkins rich, abstract paintings that create an experience in themselves.
Recent paintings ‘Pockets of Warm Air’ and ‘Solo Canoe’ explore the experience of travelling through land and time as the light, form and colour that envelope these moments are felt and experienced. These paintings are often formed with non-tangible spaces working with translucent layers of richly saturated hues. In the context of a world encompassed in fast and short, digital influences - my work is consciously physical and created gradually- over weeks, sometimes years, with the richness of materiality and time.

Recent Nominations
2024 -Women in Art Prize - ‘Nebula’ - photographic print.
2024 -Blue Shop Cottage, Works on Paper ‘The Journey’ / Paddle-boarder / Into Night / In the Blink of an Eye.
2023 -Jacksons Painting Prize - ‘Swimmer’ - oil on canvas.
2022 -Jacksons Painting Prize - ‘Moving Through Worlds’ - oil on canvas.
2021 -Jacksons Painting Prize - ‘Night Owl’s’ - oil on canvas.