Working with an electric palette, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
She explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while going deep into dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Her work invites you to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
“Lucas” is inspired by luchadores.
Materials: Oil on cradled panel
Measurements: 10”x10”
Working with an electric palette, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
She explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while going deep into dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Her work invites you to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
“Lucas” is inspired by luchadores.
Materials: Oil on cradled panel
Measurements: 10”x10”
Rachel Jones is a painter, haircutter, and caregiver living in Portland, Oregon. Her recent work explores, with disquieting acuity, the concepts of “people pleasing” and “putting on a happy face.”
