Rachel Goodyear Overview

Rachel Goodyear has fast captivated museum directors, curators and collectors worldwide with her witty, ingenious and intricately rendered pencil and watercolour drawings. Whilst at first glance Goodyear's drawings appear humorously innocent, each closer look reveals the unease that lies beneath their... [more]

Rachel Goodyear has fast captivated museum directors, curators and collectors worldwide with her witty, ingenious and intricately rendered pencil and watercolour drawings. Whilst at first glance Goodyear's drawings appear humorously innocent, each closer look reveals the unease that lies beneath their surface.

Goodyear's work is influenced by mythology and folkore.She looks for unlikely relationships in everything she encounters, and an idea is just as likely to be sparked by a peculiar happening that interrupts the mundane, a major event that changes the way she lives, or a few words lifted from an advert. From this constant everyday cross-referencing she creates carefully constructed coincidences that are delicate in their nature and unsettling in their content.

As an artist with a perceptive intelligence and remarkable skill, Goodyear's delicate creations punch far above their weight, testing and probing the precarious line between real and imagined possibilities.

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