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Rachel Wren, Artist

Rachel Wren, Artist

Endless Season and Full Circle
2021
Oil on linen

My work evokes landscape space, light, and atmosphere within a geometric structure. Hints of landscape emerge and then dissolve into layers of subtly shifting color and mark. The paintings are places the viewer can enter into with both mind and body. They have a breathing quality, a quiet vibration created by the push and pull of mark and color. Each painting is built up slowly, with many layers, and that time embedded in the work invites viewers to slow down in front of it too, the way one might stop and breathe deeper upon being in nature. As viewers encounter this work at The Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, my hope is that they are drawn into these painted spaces and experience a healing, restorative sensation, similar to what they may feel on the grounds outside.