Rachel English: Heavenly Forms

  • Rachel English Cloudscape painting. The perspective of the work is looking up through a hole in the clouds. The sky in the middle is blue and the clouds are white and grey
    Rachel English, "Cloudscape 124", 2024
    "Born and raised under the wide Texas skies, I have formed a friendship with them over my lifetime. The skies are commonly associated with the heavens, yet they evoke a sense of grounded-ness, too." - Rachel English
    Rachel English is an American contemporary artist and painter known for her vivid, hyper-realistic cloudscapes. Through concentration on the skies—celestial, stormy, and strange—Rachel English’s work embodies a perennial urge to gaze upward and grapple with ideas of existential meaning. A lifelong fascination with the fields of astronomy and physics sustains her painting technique, involving layers of oil color and brushwork to describe cosmic forms on canvas.

  • "Rain or shine, the skies shape our experience in both ordinary ways, and in ways that draw us closer to the divine, through their mystifying light and scale." - Rachel English 

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    • Rachel English, Cloudscape 123, 2024
      Rachel English, Cloudscape 123, 2024
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    • Rachel English, Cloudscape 124, 2024
      Rachel English, Cloudscape 124, 2024
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    • Rachel English, Cloudscape 110, 2023
      Rachel English, Cloudscape 110, 2023
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    • Rachel English, Cloudscape 116, 2023
      Rachel English, Cloudscape 116, 2023
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    Rachel English is an American contemporary artist and painter known for her vivid, hyper-realistic cloudscapes. Through concentration on the skies—celestial, stormy, and strange—Rachel English’s work embodies a perennial urge to gaze upward and grapple with ideas of existential meaning.