“My friends call me a magpie, drawn to colour and detail that I take back to my nest and make my own. I love to think of my paintings in that way, full of treasures, and like collectibles.”

Rachel Bottomley is a British contemporary painter based in the Surrey countryside. She is obsessed with colour and paints completely intuitively, drawing upon details she’s seen, loved and stored in her imagination to add further character and joy to her works. 

Rich and layered, her mixed media approach blends acrylic, ink, pigment sticks and both oil and chalk pastels to give rise to immersive art that pops off the page with each exaggerated, free-flowing line interrupting and interacting with the next. Texture, movement, colour and pattern abound in her paintings.

Rachel’s original work is currently available at a select few British galleries, via direct enquiry & in Rachel’s online studio.