Rachel Shaw Ashton’s work comprises two figurative forms, the ecstatic and the static.

Rachel is interested in the state of the human heart and explores these two contrasting emotions through her work. Firstly euphoria, that ever illusive and fleeting feeling we in the western world are constantly chasing but rarely feel, and secondly resignation, the feeling of stillness and clarity, a coming-to-terms with whatever may have gone before.

Her inspiration comes “when something is seen but the remnants of the image remain with you.”