Rachel Samantha Speedie

From a very young age, art has always been one of Rachel’s main passions in life. Doodling throughout car journeys as a child progressed onto studying illustration at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. After graduating in 2008, Rachel returned to Dumfries & Galloway to gain experience in a variety of arts-based fields before leaving the country to sample life in India & Thailand and settling eventually in New Zealand.

Rachel’s main inspiration is the natural world that surrounds us all, combined with the different ways in which we all see it. She is intrigued by how two people can look at the same scene spreading out before them, but perhaps be appreciating completely different things. Rachel combines drawing, painting and printmaking to create imaginative, mixed media illustrations which she now does so at her residency in Devorgilla Gallery.