Rachel Ritchford

Rachel Ritchford

Rachel Ritchford
View fullsize Passerines, 2026, vinyl emulsion and acrylic on linen, 75 x 60 cm.
View fullsize Hidden Cave II, 2026, vinyl emulsion, acrylic, gampi paper on linen, 44.5 x 41 cm.
View fullsize The Winter of Your Year, 2026, acrylic on gampi paper and linen, 76 x 61 cm.
View fullsize Frame I, 2025, watercolor and oil paint on canvas, 40 x 35 cm.
View fullsize Under a Skin of Oil, 2025, vinyl emulsion, acrylic, gampi paper on canvas, 65 x 50 cm.
View fullsize Night Shift, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 35 cm.
View fullsize Te Laat (Too Late), 2025, marker, vinyl emulsion, oil paint on canvas, 65 x54 cm.
View fullsize Icon with Border, 2023, acrylic on linen, 50.5 x 50.5 cm.
View fullsize Drumming Up Fever, 2025, marker, vinyl emulsion, acrylic, oil paint on canvas, 61 x 46 cm.
View fullsize Forest Floor I, 2023, acrylic on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Forest Floor III, 2023, acrylic on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Hunters in the Snow (Apocalypse Version), 2023, vinyl emulsion on linen, 60.5 x 60.5 cm.
View fullsize Frame II, 2025, marker, gouache and oil paint on canvas, 61 x 46 cm.
View fullsize Controlled Burn, 2023, acrylic paint on linen, 45 x 41 cm.
View fullsize Forest Floor II, 2023, acrylic on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Future Dust, 2023, acrylic paint on linen, 30 x 24 cm.
View fullsize Forest Floor IV, 2023, acrylic on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Future Dust II, 2023, acrylic paint on linen, 30 x 24 cm.
View fullsize Oil Slick, 2023, acrylic on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Moon and Glow, 2023, acrylic, watercolor and gampi paper on linen, 24.5 x 24.5 cm.
View fullsize Surface Temperatures, 2022, watercolor and acrylic on gampi paper on canvas, 51 x 40.5 cm.
View fullsize Radiation Tree, 2023, acrylic paint and gampi paper on linen, 25.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Icon with Border, acrylic on gampi paper on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Undergrowth, 2022, acrylic paint on hemp, 24 x 30 cm.
View fullsize Hidden Cave, 2022, marker and gouache on gampi paper on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Breathe Water, 2022, acrylic on gampi paper on linen, 25x30cm.
View fullsize How to Stop Doomscrolling, 2022, acrylic gouache on kozo paper on panel, 23 x 31 cm.
View fullsize Tread the Ooze, 2022, marker, acrylic, on gampi paper on linen, 31.5 x 25.5 cm.
View fullsize Maladaptive Regulation Strategies, 2022, watercolor marker and acrylic on gampi paper on panel, 20.5 x 26 cm.
View fullsize Untitled (Green II), 2022, watercolor markers and acrylic on gampi paper on linen, 24 x 30 cm.
View fullsize UntitlLittle Green Place, 2022, acrylic gouache on gampi paper on canvas, 24x30cm.
View fullsize Red II, 2022, acrylic gouache on okawara paper on canvas, 20.5x26cm.
View fullsize Untitled (Hornbeams with Ivy I), 2022, acrylic on gampi paper on panel, 20.5 x 26 cm.
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Rachel Eckstein Ritchford is an American-born Dutch artist living in Normandy, France. Her work uses landscape to deal with the climate crisis and subsequent eco-anxiety. She is inspired by the limited green spaces in cities and the shrinking wild spaces everywhere. 

Ms. Ritchford earned an MFA in painting from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago receiving a Trustee Scholarship and an MFA Graduate Grant. Other awards include an MFA Fellowship and a Past Fellows Award from the Dedalus Foundation in 2022; a Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Award; and an Ellen Batell Stoeckel Fellowship from Yale University School of Art. She has exhibited at Field Projects and The Yard (NYC), MiM Gallery (Los Angeles), Mt. Comfort (Indianapolis), TW Fine Art (Brisbane) and The Rathouse (Berlin).