Mostly making things up. Occasionally making actual things. All by hand.
I'm Rachel, a Calgary-based writer and multidisciplinary artist working across storytelling, mixed media and ceramics.
A Few Things of Note
Brickolage | Uppercase Magazine, Issue 71
A personal essay about collecting fragments of the past, finding beauty in overlooked places, and the unexpected connections between art, memory, and making. Find it here.
It’s Just a Period | Groundwood Books
A nonfiction picture book co-written with Carrie Fisher. Acquired by Groundwood Books. Forthcoming 2028.
Photo by Mark Johnson
A Psychologist and An Artist | The Potters Cast, Episode 822
A conversation about balancing a career in psychology with a creative practice in ceramics, and the experiences that inform both. Listen Here.
Collections of Work
Photos by Ashley Derry
Brickolage began with a handful of peeling paint fragments and a curiosity about the things we walk past without noticing.
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Working with a limited palette of cobalt blue and white, these paintings play with the familiar shapes of leaves, petals, and stems, rearranging them into something less recognizable. Loose Arrangements explores mirrored forms, continuous lines, and cut-out shapes that seem to fold back on themselves.
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