Info@rachaeltylerbacon.com
Born 1977, Lives and Works in Whitby, UK.
Co-Director Loftus Arts CIO (launching 2025).

Education
2023-2024 Painting Post Grad - Turps Banana
2006-2008 Intaglio Printmaking - Queen Elizabeth Trust Scholarship
1998-2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art - Leeds University

Recent Nominations
2024 Women in Art Prize - ‘Nebula’ - Photographic print.
2024 Blue Shop Cottage, Works on Paper - ‘The Journey’ / Paddle-boarder / Into Night / In the Blink of an Eye.
2023 Jacksons Painting Prize - ‘Swimmer’/’Electric Dreams’ Oil on canvas.
2022 Jacksons Painting Prize - ’Moving Through Worlds’ - Oil on canvas.
2021 Jacksons Painting Prize - ‘Night Owls’ - Oil on Canvas.

Bio
Rachael is a British artist living and working in the North Yorkshire coastal area, flanked by the sea and ancient woodlands where observations of intangible moments in wild places are central to her body of work.
Born in 1977, she graduated from Leeds University in 2001 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art, followed by a sustained period painting life models and ‘en plein air’ landscapes. In 2006 she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in printmaking and recently completed the Turps Banana post grad in painting.
Her vibrant paintings, often built in translucent layers, revolve around ‘asking unresolved questions’ formed with sections that “could be seen as other spatial dimensions, but also as non-tangible spaces” resonating with Australian artist Sydney Nolan’s paintings of figures in untamed landscapes.
Rachael is Co-Director of Loftus Arts CIO, a developing arts venue, opening early 2025, and is emerging as a contemporary British painter.

Artist Statement
My paintings, drawings and prints, investigate nature and time, responding to intangible moments, difficult to express in words. Often, it is in wild places, that we are able to pass through land and time in active consciousness, as we experience the world from different perspectives: looking down from a summit across an atlas of form and space, or over a constellation of reflections from a boat. These opportunities give time for an active form of ‘wonder’ forming the starting point for many of my paintings.
Working primarily in oil paints for the rich, fluid nature, early influences include the ‘Northern Symbolist’ painters Harald Sohlberg & Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper’s ‘film still’ paintings, and Howard Hodgkin’s rich, abstract paintings that create an experience in themselves.
Recent paintings ‘Pockets of Warm Air’ and ‘Solo Canoe’ explore the experience of travelling through space and time as the light, form and colour that envelop these moments are felt and experienced. These paintings are formed with non-tangible spaces working with translucent layers of richly saturated hues. In the context of a world saturated in fast and short, digital influences - my work is consciously physical and created gradually- over weeks and sometimes years, with the richness of materiality and time.