Valley, New South Wales Painting

Rachel McDonnell is an artist whose preoccupations include light, and our experiences of it, optical trickery, pattern and paying homage to the minutiae/neglected things of life through painting. Beyond that she has interests in philosophy, politics, feminism and the environment, amongst other things, all of which feed into her work. She tries to amalgamate thoughts and ideas about art and the world into something which draws the viewer in, and might lead them to appreciate the work as an object in itself, and also to think about both the work and its subject. She lives near Stroud in Gloucestershire with her partner and two children.