Piece description from the artist
This was the first pinecone I painted and I dare say, one of the best. Sometimes, you just nail it. Outside my studio while in college, grew four white pine trees, and I had just realized I needed to start painting from life instead of from photographs. Working from photographs removes a bit of the magic of the painting- for me, while working from life I can really hit what the piece is about. And I wanted to paint nature- particularly tree bark, but it was Vermont and February. I don't know if you've been to Vermont in February but you don't want to be outside for extended periods of time standing relatively still until May. So I had to bring outside inside. The ice one day was covered in pinecones. And so the pinecones came inside with me and I experimented and this is where it all began.
Rachel Aurora received her B.A. in Studio Art and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College (2018) and currently lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her debut solo exhibition, “A Second Look: Pinecones and Birch through Portraiture” opened in her hometown of Claremont, NH in April 2019 in the John D. Bennett Atrium Gallery of the Claremont Opera House. Her paintings have also been featured in the 26th Annual Student Show of the Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA and the Intercollegiate Regional of the The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY.
While at Middlebury, her work was published in The Birch at Columbia University and in Blackbird Student Magazine at Middlebury College. She conducted several group exhibitions at Middlebury on topics ranging from feminism and science to human ecology.
She has an avid interest in food systems reform, ecological justice and healing, and regenerative agriculture.
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