Rachael is a WA-based artist and enjoys dabbling in a variety of art forms including sketching, crochet, photography, sculpture and more. She is always eager to learn more and keep expanding her knowledge in the arts.
Being born into an arty family, Rachael began drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil, and has not stopped since. Her work focuses largely around themes of awe and wonder at God's creation and also around portraiture and therapeutic/mindfulness practices in art. She is very interested in the way that making things helps the brain to process situations, events, feelings and memories, and quite often incorporates this into her personal art practices, using her sketching and photography as a method for journaling.
Rachael has completed two undergraduate university degrees majoring in Visual Arts through ECU, has been selling her art since 2017 (previously as "RachaelKels Art", now as "The Yarned Inkwell"), and now teaches Visual Arts in secondary school from years 7 to 11. She enjoys sharing her passion for the arts and helping others to rekindle their creative spark and to realise that there is so much more to art than just sketching and painting.