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

In her work, Rachel explores the rhythms of buried landscapes within and around us, the cycle of life and death and why we become connected to sacred places.
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Using layered watercolour and ink on paper, Rachel creates semi-abstract landscapes of memorialised objects and places, considering how these become physically and neurologically settled, and how they capture spirit, time or pattern. Using an autoethnographic approach, Rachel investigates how burial practices speak to us today, deepen our understanding of landscape, and connect us with memory. She considers how deep time links body, mind and ancestry, and how walking or interpretative mapping in particular helps us to understand or navigate our past.