Rachel Thompson is a Cambridge based artist, with a BA (Theatre Design 2007) and MA (Fine Art 2024) from Central Saint Martins.

In her work Rachel explores how the process of painting connects with human experience, memories of place, and how people today and through time have used repetition and ritual in the land to seek both existential and emotional clarity.

In her work Rachel considers the visual language of walking, using drawn lines and layered papers to mirror the fragmented way in which our memory of place is neurologically settled. References to aerial & geological maps; gatherings; routes; journeys and paths show the imprints we make not just in a literal or physical sense, but also psychologically. How we must tread carefully along old fragile paths on the earth just as we should tread carefully along the fractures in our own psyche, taking care where we step, and noticing the marks that we (and those before us) make.

Images of land evolution, stone circles, deep time and burial grounds permeate Rachel’s work – as she reflects on how these sites connect us with past civilisations and lead us to paths that navigate and integrate our own memories.