'Ghostly Shadows Draped in Mist' Oil on Canvas 16 x 39

Rachel Thomas is a professional artist specialising in contemporary, colourful oil paintings. A qualified textile designer she looks for the colours and patterns in nature.

Rachel has exhibited throughout Britain and recently had an exhibition of her works in the Palace of Westiminster, London.

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1967 - Born Grantham, Lincolnshire

1980 - Moved to Norfolk

1983 - Great Yarmouth Art College

1985 - Batley Schoolof Art, West Yorkshire

1987 - Design Consultant, London

1989 - Barbados Exhibited Coffee and Cream Gallery, series of paintings commissioned by hotel chain.

1990-96 Travelled extensively throughout Europe, South East Asia, America, India gaining ideas and developing her art.

1996 - Crome Gallery, Norwich

1997 - Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London, 'Not the Royal Academy Show'. South of England Show, N.E.C Birmingham, Courtyard Gallery, Selbourne Hampshire. Frederick Gallery, Suffolk, Solo Exhibition Grapevine Gallery Norwich. P.Y.B.T. supported.

1997 Onwards yearly Great Yarnouth and District Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Norfolk Show.

1998 - Picturecraft of Holt, North Norfolk, Joint Exhibition studio Martham, Solo Exhibition Grapevine Gallery Norwich, Crome Galery Norwich, Weostead Festival, Christmas Solo Exhibition Studio Martham, painting trip to Iona - work bought by Iona Abbey.

1998 Onwards yearly Martham Art Exhibition.

1999 - Baron Art, Kelling, Holt, Resident Fairhaven Trust, South Walsham, Commissioned Camden Graphics, London, Worstead Festival, Picturecraft of Holt, Two woman show with sculptress, Summer Exhibition Studio Martham, Martham Millennium Project, Grapevine Gallery Norwich.

2000 - Baron Art Kelling, Fairhaven Trust, South Walsham, Worstead Festival, Aspects Exhibition Burnham Deepdale, Joint Exhibition with a fellow artist. Th Art Club, Gallery, Ixworth, Bury St Edmunds, "The Flegg Project" Arts project in schools for 'Rural Arts East' & Eastern Arts Borad.

2001 - Baron Art Kelling, Three week painting trip to Iona & Western Highlands, Field Dalling Gallery, N. Norfolk; Summer Husband and Wife Exhibition Martham; The Gallery Ixworth, Bury St Edmundsl; James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth joint hospital Exhibition.

2002 The Seachange Gallery Gt Yarmouth joint show, Summer exhibition Studio Martham, Arts for the Hospital J.P.H.

2003 'Stevedores and Silverdarlings', joint exhibition with a fellow female artist.