Rachael is an experimental textile and mixed media artist living in West Yorkshire, England.  She describes her residency at the Nature in Art Museum and Gallery as a “cocoon of delight!” If you listen deeply and look closely, you will see how Rachael’s obsession with stone and stone walls seeps into all her work. Her feelings and experiences and surroundings all contribute to unique and thought-provoking pieces of art. During our chat, she talks about containment and constraint, delicious boredom, and Helen Keller’s keen observations.

Takeaways

1. “Music is the space between the notes.” Claude Debussy
2. Your work teaches you AFTER you've done it.
3. You need other people to notice things in your work that you may not see.
4. Look down and in for creativity and up and out for a sense of well-being.
5. Take time to contemplate and mull, and simply look long enough to see things from a distance.

Links

Rachael Singleton

Rachael on Instagram

Rachael on Facebook

Blue Peter

Kim Thittichai

Nature in Art Artist in Residence program

Do: Pause

Krystyna Pomeroy

Henry Moore, London’s War: The Shelter Drawings of Henry Moore

The Song of the Stone Wall, Helen Keller

Jacob Nordby