Info@rachaeltylerbacon.com
Born 1977, Lives and Works in Whitby, UK.
Co-Director Loftus Studios CIC.
Education
2023-2024 Turps Correspondence
2006-2008 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship in Intaglio Printmaking
1998-2001 Fine Art BA (Hons) Leeds University
Artist Statement
Often, it is in wild places, that we are able to pass through time and space in active consciousness, as we see the world from different perspectives: looking down from a hilltop across an atlas of form and space, or out over a constellation of reflections on the water from a boat. These opportunities give time for a vital form of wonder. 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.
Bio
Rachael is a British artist living and working in the North Yorkshire coastal area, flanked by the sea and ancient woodlands.
Her expressionist style of allegorical paintings in mainly acrylic and oils, are concerned with the experience of living, responding to intangible moments, difficult to express in words, for example: the sensation of moving through time, light and colour from a boat. Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Pierre Bonnard and later Frank Auerbach were key influences.
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 leading to commissions and collaborations. After some time setting up artist’s studios in Northumberland, and North Yorkshire, Rachael is Co-Director of Loftus Studios opening autumn 2024, and is now emerging as a new, contemporary British painter.
Recent Nominations
Jacksons Painting Prize 2021 - ‘Night Owl’s Oil on Canvas
Jacksons Painting Prize 2022 - ’Moving Through Worlds’ - Oil on canvas
Jacksons Painting Prize 2023 - ‘Swimmer’/’Electric Dreams’ Oil on canvas
Blue Shop Cottage Works on Paper 2024 - ‘The Journey’ / Paddle-boarder / Into Night / In the Blink of an Eye
Women in Art Prize 2024 - ‘Nebula’ - Photographic print