Rachel Parker

About the artist

Rachel Parker, SWA, has lived in Barnes for over fifteen years and raised her family here.

After a career in property and finance, Rachel turned to her life-long passion of art and is now a full-time artist, focussing principally on figurative, landscape and still life work. She paints in oils directly from life as well as using reference materials and she welcomes commissions. Rachel uses an abundance of colour to depict flesh tones, shape, and form, with the aim of transforming emotions and feelings into material and visual expression. She challenges herself to find new ways to describe the familiar through the language of painting.

Rachel is Vice President of The Society of Women Artists and exhibits regularly with them at The Mall Galleries in London. She trained at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea where she graduated with a Diploma in Portraiture.