Rachel
Rachel is a contemporary painter, based in Herefordshire. Her work explores a deep connection with landscape, feminine energy and emotional experience with depth and sensitive strength.
Working with oil paint and other mixed media, materials and techniques are used in experimental and intuitive ways. It is an organic journey, exploring ideas through process.
Trusting her instincts, the physical act of painting, with gentle energy, responding to memory, sounds, and emotion is central to the works success.
‘Nature is a source of deep comfort; grounding and soothing. I’m drawn to quiet still places or things that hold undistracted focus.
Painting is meditative, therapeutic. I know my paintings bring emotional response and connection. My art is my powerful way of speaking and sharing.
CV
After graduation in 2001, work took Rachel to Manchester where she settled and worked for nearly 10 years in the textile industry, designing textiles and wallpaper for the UK, USA, Korea, Japan and European markets.
Relocation to The Golden Valley in Herefordshire brought the opportunity to build a studio, with beautiful views of The Black Mountains, and a return to painting.
Rachel has gallery representation throughout the UK and her work is held in private collections around the world.
1998-2001 BA (Hons) Printed Textile Design, Loughborough University School of Art and Design
1997-1998 BTEC National Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design
Exhibitions
2025
Celtic Memories, The Sanctaury Gallery
2024
Spring/Summer show, Silson Contemporary
The wonder and the wild, Gallery at Home
2023
Gallery 54
The Bealach Gallery
Solo show, The Bridge Inn
Secret postcard show, The Old Lockup Gallery
2022
The colour of nature, Old Lockup Gallery
Gallery 54
The Bealach Gallery
2021
Gallery 54
The Bealach Gallery
2020
Winter exhibition, Old Lockup Gallery
Private sales via website and social media
2019
Landforms, Rachel Sudworth and Liz Slater, The Old Lockup Gallery
Out of Earth, Made in the Marches Gallery
Earlier selected exhibitions
Summer Open Exhibition, Kunsthuis gallery
Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
Herefordshire Landscape, Beauty and Power, with Maggie Kingston. Applestore Gallery.
‘Abstraction’ Old Mayors Parlour H.Art week prize 2016
A2 Gallery
Workshop Wales Gallery
Gallery 54
Abstract Edge Group Exhibition
Solo show, The Shippon
St Davids Studio Gallery
A Wash of Energy, Kunsthuis Gallery
Ludlow Open, Herefordshire
Shell House Gallery, with Carl Arroyo
H.Art 2012 Baileys Home
Applestore Gallery
Galanthus Gallery