Rachel has a studio at a retreat-centre called Wild Ways; which is a haven for creativity and earth-based spirituality, where it’s not unusual for a passing shaman, druid or witch to pop into her studio for a cuppa or a deer to wonder past the studio door. The wild creatures that populate her paintings, the deer, badgers, rabbits, hares, owls and more are part of her daily life, as are the spirits of nature that populate her paintings which she imaginatively translates as fairies, dragons, green men and women and more.