Soaring in Crimson – Rachael Jane MacDonald
$ 90.54
- About the Artist Rachael Jane MacDonald BA(Hons) MA is a textile & mixed media artist based in the inspiring Scottish Highlands. Her work is rooted in an appreciation of nature and led by natural forms, textures, patterns and materials. Scottish folktales and old superstitions inform her current work. Folktales give a sense of how people used to experience their world: as a layered and symbolic shifting place imbued with a sense of possibility and otherness. Rachael draws her visuals from a mindful engagement with nature – layering colours, marks and pigments in a reflective and intuitive way to encapsulate the sense of otherworldliness held within folktales. Her work also incorporates memory, personal narrative and sub-conscious symbolism to encapsulate a shared ancestral human experience. Rachael studied Performance Costume at Edinburgh College of Art and worked in theatre and costume design for years. She then went on to complete an MA in Textiles at Heriot-Watt University and subsequently launched her textiles-led creative practice. Rachael is an art lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands.
