About Rachel

Rachel documents her life (and other peoples'!) wherever she goes.  Rachel is an acute observer,  skilled in drawing and watercolour.  She has lived a fascinating life steeped in the tropics, the Hymalayas and has travelled India, from top to bottom, on her Enfield motorbike, sketching bazaars, markets, holy cows and plants. In Hong Kong, forever under construction, she busied herself with bamboo scaffolding. 

Born in 1961 in Australia, Rachel was educated in Scotland and has spent most of her adult life painting in Sri Lanka and Belgium, returning to the Scottish Borders in 2019, where she now has her studio. The other vein in her life and art is music:

"I play the violin"  previously with the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonique d'Uccle, Brussels, Amaryllis, Tienen, Belgium, and currently with the Clarence Valley Orchestra, NSW, Australia and The Berwick Baroque Players Berwick-upon-Tweed.