Rachel Greenbank Portrait, Figure and Landscape Artist

Rachel is a contemporary portrait and figure artist and Illustrator, living and working in Brampton, Cumbria. A fascination with drawing portraits as a child has developed into her chosen subject. Preferring acrylic on canvas as her chosen medium, she creates contemporary  portraits and works on a variety of other surfaces from wood and slate, to traditional papers and canvas.

Blending the natural beauty of figures and faces with abstract textures, patterns, flowers and animals, she creates digital montages, which form the source material for her paintings. Her work aims to capture femininity and beauty and the kinship with Mother Earth and nature.  The backgrounds to the artworks like people, have many layers, depths and complexities.

More recently she has been enjoying painting birds and occasional landscapes. Again on a variety of surfaces and objects.

After graduating from UCLAN in 1998 with 1st Class Ba(Hons) in Illustration Rachel has worked as a greeting card designer for Inspire By Design,  an art therapist for South Lakes Mind, running wellbeing art workshops, and occasionally enjoys running painting workshops around the North West. "I'd love to be able to teach more from my home studio, and will hopefully facilitate that in the near future. 

Links to other websites 

https://rachel-greenbank-artist.sumupstore.com

www.instagram.com/rachel_greenbank_artist

http://www.facebook.com/rachelgreenbankart

https://www.artfinder.com/rachel-greenbank

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Biography

Rachel was born in the Lake District and grew up in a small village near Kendal in Cumbria. From an early age all she wanted to do was be creative and follow a career in the arts. She graduated from the University of Central Lancs in 1998 with 1st class BA(hons) in Illustration. A year later she gained her first art job designing greeting cards for Inspire by Design in Nottingham. She had work published worldwide by companies such as Woolworths, Clintons, Jenners, JML, Gibsons, Georgia Pacific and International Greetings. 

After 4.5 years of freelancing and a year in Nottingham she decided to move back to the Lakes to concentrate on her first love, portrait and figure painting. She was a resident  portrait artist at Farfield Mill in Sedbergh for 2 years where she ran classes and held portrait sitting sessions in the Weavers Cafe. She is a member of Green Door Studios, Worked as an art therapist for South Lakeland Mind, Is a member of Kendal Arts Community and is currently based at her studio at Brampton.