Through abstract landscape painting I seek to spatialize the landscape of memories both distant and near, sublime and mundane. My approach to painting leans on analog tools and processes of drawing and measuring a remembered terrain. I work primarily in watercolor and soluble graphite on paper, a medium that allows for the many spatial conditions, dynamic living processes, ephemera and time scales that the landscape embodies. I also love drawing en plein air.

Rachel Johnston is an artist, landscape architect and architect working in New York. She has a background in fine arts and previously taught design and drawing at the University of Pennsylvania. Rachel received a BS and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington and a Masters in Architecture and Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2012 she co-founded Studio Prospect, a design firm focused on residential interiors and landscapes. Originally from Alfred, NY, Rachel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.