Touch painting
Working with an electric palette of neons, pastels, and bold primaries, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
This body of mixed-media paintings and drawings explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while probing deeper emotional territories of dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Blurring the line between the earthly and supernatural realms, each piece invites viewers to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
“Touch” is an unnerving group portrait featuring femme symbolism and cadmium red. It is a large and haunting work. Whoever buys this is lucky indeed.
Materials: Oil on sturdy, textured Arches paper (it is sultry and deluxe)
Measurements: 22.5”x30”
Working with an electric palette of neons, pastels, and bold primaries, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
This body of mixed-media paintings and drawings explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while probing deeper emotional territories of dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Blurring the line between the earthly and supernatural realms, each piece invites viewers to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
“Touch” is an unnerving group portrait featuring femme symbolism and cadmium red. It is a large and haunting work. Whoever buys this is lucky indeed.
Materials: Oil on sturdy, textured Arches paper (it is sultry and deluxe)
Measurements: 22.5”x30”
Working with an electric palette of neons, pastels, and bold primaries, Rachel incorporates familiar imagery—helping hands, smiley faces, ghosts, emoji, clouds, rainbows—into uncanny dream scenes that feel simultaneously playful and unsettling.
This body of mixed-media paintings and drawings explores the territory between innocence and anxiety, drawing visual influence from children's art while probing deeper emotional territories of dread, fear, and intrusive thoughts.
Blurring the line between the earthly and supernatural realms, each piece invites viewers to reconnect with the uninhibited expression of childhood while confronting the more complex emotional landscapes of adult life in late capitalism.
“Touch” is an unnerving group portrait featuring femme symbolism and cadmium red. It is a large and haunting work. Whoever buys this is lucky indeed.
Materials: Oil on sturdy, textured Arches paper (it is sultry and deluxe)
Measurements: 22.5”x30”
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.”