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 and quiet presence of buried landscapes within and around us, listening for echoes of time and questioning our enduring connections to sacred places.

Using layered watercolour and ink, she creates semi-abstract landscapes rooted in memorialised objects and sites, examining how these become embodied—physically and neurologically—and how they hold spirit, pattern, and time.

Through an autoethnographic practice, Rachel reflects on burial as a contemporary language of landscape and memory. She considers deep time as a connective thread between body, mind, and ancestry, and uses walking and interpretive mapping as ways to trace, navigate, and understand the past.