Red Boat Painting

Rachel Cross is an internationally traveled and trained artist. Specializing in her unique vivid and striking oil pastel paintings as well as her emotionally austere watercolor paintings. Her paintings started gaining international recognition when Red Boat became the cover of highly awarded and acknowledged American novelist, Louise Erdrich's german release of LaRose, titled Ein Lied für die Geister. Release date Oct 17th 2016 In addition to her paintings Rachel writes engaging and compelling stories in which she also illustrates. Starting in 2015 with projected finish date of 2017 she will have finished her first full length picture book. You can sometimes catch her working in a coffee shop, in her home town of St. Augustine FL, painting in a corner. She welcomes conversation, inquisitive minds, and enjoys sharing her passion. You can usually find her sharing her techniques and sometimes canvas space with anyone who has a glimmer of passion to paint. More about Rachel, she is a Veteran of the United States of America healing and expressing mental highs and lows through art and writings. Pictures vary depending on clarity and obscurity. "Art heals me one brush stoke at a time." Most paintings contain both tormenting and serenity with in them. Always looking to hope and happiness as a driving factor of life and art.