Rachel Glittenberg

Using a mix of my imagination, life drawings and photographic references, I often borrow elements from history and folklore to explore what it means to be a woman in the 21st Century. The women I paint are at ease with themselves and not generally paying attention to the viewer. I want my women to be challenging to look at, confrontational even, which is why I often paint them face on and close up, producing a feeling of intensity.  Their postures and often direct gaze are important expressions of their sense of self.  I make a feature of their eyes to draw in the viewer. These figures are powerful yet feminine.
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Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, MA Arts Admin 1995
University of East London, BA Fine Art, 1990
Wimbledon School of Art, Fine Art Foundation, 1989

Group Shows
2018 Festival 15, Hastings Art Forum, St Leonards on Sea
2017 Lucy Bell Gallery, Christmas Show, St Leonards on Sea
2017 Cameron Contemporary Gallery, Winter Show, Brighton
2017 Cameron Contemporary Gallery, All Square, Brighton
2017 Coastal Currents Open Studio, St Leonards on Sea
2017 Rye Society of Artists Summer Exhibition, Rye
2017 Sussex Open 2017, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2017 Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2017, Piano Nobile Kings Place, London
2017 Facile & Viscous, Murmurations Gallery, Bexhill
2016 Christmas Group Show, Rye Art Gallery, Rye
2015 Face The Front, Rye Art Gallery, Rye
2015 Omega Studios, St Leonards on Sea
2013 Group Open Studios, Lambeth Open, London
2013 Charity Group Show, Foreman's Fish Island Gallery, London
2013 Group Open Studios, Dulwich Artists' Open House, London
2012 Group Open Studios, Dulwich Artists' Open House, London
2012 On the Brow of the Hill, Dulwich Park, London
2012 Group Show, Grossmith Gallery, Margate
2012 Group Open Studios, Lambeth Open, London
2011 Beauty in the Real’, Ice House Gallery, London
2011 Group Open Studios, NW10 Group Open Studios, London
2011 Group Open Studios, ArtNW10 Art Trail, London
2011 Brent Art Fair, The Gallery ...