Rachael Reeve-Edwards

I am a painter living by the sea in Newlyn in Cornwall. Much of my work is about my environment. I studied MA painting at Chelsea School of Art and Design.

I currently have exhibition's at the Stratford Gallery in Broadway in England and at The Tyler Gallery in Mousehole, Cornwall, England.

I have a one person show opening in May 2021 at The Jupiter Gallery in Newlyn Cornwall.

My recent work is taken from my immediate environment. I live very near the sea in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK and I am a regular year-round sea swimmer. My relationship to the natural world and the places I visit on a daily basis feature regularly in her paintings. My work also stems from an interest in the formal qualities that make up a painting; I thinks very carefully about the placement of these. My visual language hones in on shape and form, light and dark, the edges of things. I have recently become very interested at the point when figuration becomes abstraction and visa versa and some of her images attempt at depicting this relationship. Alongside this there is also a fascination in my experience of looking and viewing a space. Some of my current paintings capture the overlaying of images, like a visual sound scape; foreground, sky, backgroun...

1987-88 Masters Degree, Painting, Chelsea, School of Art

1983-85 Completed B.A.Hons, Coventry University

1980-81 1st year B.A. Hons, Coventry University

1979-80 One Year Art Foundation Course, Barnfield College, Luton

Selected Group Shows
2021 Stratford Gallery, Broadway.
2020 Tyler Gallery, Mousehole.
2020 Edge of Dark Tremenhere Sculpture Gardens
2018 NSA ‘drawing’ group Show Tremenhere Sculpture Gardens
2017 Borders NSA Tremenhere Sculpture Gardens
2016 Newlyn Art Gallery ‘Wet’ Auction
2016 London Art Fair Jill George Gallery
2015 Toronto Art Fair Jill George Gallery
2015 NSA group show Penwith Gallery St Ives
2014 McCallister Gallery Surrey
2014 PZ Gallery NSA Critics Choice – Laura Gascoigne
2013 Newlyn Art Gallery – Newlyn School of Art Tutor Exhibition
2013 McCallister Gallery Surrey
2012 Plymouth Art Gallery ‘New Light on Newlyn’
2012 NSA Group Show, Feiler Gallery, Newlyn
2011 Chapel Gallery Gulval
2011 Uncharted Landscape
2011 Abundance Kestle Barton
2010 RWA Autumn Open Bristol
2009 NSA Christmas Show Westcott Gallery St Ives
2009 Autumn Open RWA Bristol
2009 NSA Cornish Perspective RWA Bristol
2008 NSA Small works on paper Christmas Show
2008 RWA Autumn Open Bristol
One Person Shows
2017 Picture Room Newlyn Art Gallery
2004 Cornerstone Gallery St Ives
2002 Falmouth Arts Centre
1994 Atlantis Gallery Brick Lane