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"It is the urge to create that makes us human. Changing the world around us gives us our humanity." Andrew Marr.

 

Rachel Huston is a Christchurch-based artist who has recently graduated with a BFA (First Class Honours in Painting) from the Ilam School of Fine Arts.

 

As an artist, Rachel Huston explores the dichotomy of separation and connection. She seeks to capture the emotions she experiences living and witnessing these polarities in life. Using vivid colour and the tactility of her materials, she creates layers of tangled forms that intertwine and make substantial new perceptions that would otherwise remain fleeting and discorporate. Balance is perpetually lost and regained in these artworks. Possibilities abound.

 

Rachel Huston divides her time between her Christchurch studio and a tiny house deep in the West Coast bush. The artist is currently working on a series based on the indigenous and introduced flowers that surround her titled ‘Botanical Fusion’. She is enjoying getting back into her practice having recovered from a bout of Very Long Covid, an experience that may well end up in paint one day.

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Creating art is enjoyable and frustrating, calming and disturbing, easy and impossible. It involves observing what is real and somehow connecting that to what only exists deep inside. It questions life and gives life purpose. In short, it is a conundrum that keeps me captivated.

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I hope you enjoy my paintings.