Rachel Labovitch’s studies have taken her from Bristol to Berlin, and following her graduation from Wimbledon School of Art in 2003, her work has gone from strength to strength.

The ghostly trees in Rachel’s work inhabit an immense white void. Sparsely scattered among a mainly blank canvas, they both draw the viewer in and remind one that the space around the images is just as significant as the image itself. Each delicately graphite drawn tree exists as a multitude of one, although each is echoed by fainter sketches that fade into the periphery. The result is that we feel we are being offered what is only a glimpse into a vast ethereal forest.

“I enjoy playing with our perception of landscape; how trees tend to be awe inspiring and larger than life, temples of the natural world, yet how in these drawings the viewer is perpetually distanced and alienated from them due to their remote situation within the vast white space they inhabit.”