An archive

Studio

Gallery Rachel Martin

is an archive

of real things made by

Rachel Martin

Image galleries

https://www.flickr.com/photos/diebuechsepics/albums
on Instagram @eye_love_taylor_tx

Writing

http://somnambulit.blogspot.com/

Inspiration

Pinterest

 

 

Rachel Martin has been drawing since she was first able to hold a ballpoint pen, pencil stub, crayon or piece of chalk and find a scrap of paper, a brown paper grocery bag or a sidewalk to draw on.  A lonely only child, she wrote and illustrated her first books by the age of six.  Her earliest inspirations were fairy tales, ballets seen performed on television and fashion illustrations. She was mostly self-taught until she finally decided to enroll in art school at the age of thirty-three.  What made Rachel happy in childhood -- writing, drawing pictures, dancing -- is what still makes her happy today, six decades later. 

Unable or unwilling to stay very long in one place, Rachel obsessively documents her frequent travels in photographs.

Often hostile to the ultimate results of her strong impulse to make things -- objects which then must be stored, collect dust, or must be conserved -- Rachel has created this virtual portable storage unit for the 21st century. Please enjoy rutting around.

 

 

 

The love child of
Tom of Finland and Frida Kahlo
— anonymous comment left in exhibition guest book

Rachel Martin, BFA Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, USA