About Rachel

Rachel is an artist whose practice has been sketchbook based for many years, documenting her life (and other peoples'!) wherever she goes.   She has lived a fascinating life steeped in the tropics, the Hymalayas and has travelled India, from top to bottom, on her Enfield motorbike, sketching bazaars, markets, holy cows and plants. In Hong Kong, forever under construction, she busied herself with bamboo scaffolding. 

Settled now, her practice is more studio based.

Born in 1961 in Australia, Rachel was educated in Scotland and has spent most of her adult life as a botanical artist resident in gardens in Sri Lanka and Belgium, returning to the Scottish Borders in 2019, where she now has her studio.

Rachel was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of The Scottish Society of Botanical Artists.

The other vein in her life is music:

"I play the violin"  previously with the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonique d'Uccle, Brussels, Amaryllis, Tienen, Belgium, and currently with the Clarence Valley Orchestra, NSW, Australia and The Berwick Baroque Players, Berwick-upon-Tweed.