Rachel Garrard was born in 1984 in Devon, England and currently lives between New York and Mexico.

Garrard’s multifaceted practice integrates painting, sculpture, sound, installation, and video, articulating a view of reality in which the border between the physical and ephemeral is porous and ever-shifting. Through gossamer fractal abstractions, she charts energetic and psychic states and their impact on and interaction with the physical plane. Assimilating philosophical, scientific and cultural theory with deep psychogenic exploration, she has developed a symbolic visual language and sacred geometry that intimately connects the internal with the cosmic and universal. Her paintings are composed of natural substances, such as quartz, ash, or rock powder pigment, that collects, hand- grinds, and applies to raw linen canvas through a process of fine layering translucent washes of color. The applied pigment becomes a physical register of place, a palimpsest of past experiences and a portal to the metaphysical landscape of memory.