About the artist - Rachel Ross

Rachel Ross is an Edinburgh based artist. Her compositions encapsulate thoughts and memories suggested by the placement and intrinsic beauty of seemingly mundane objects.

Rachel Ross graduated from Central St Martins School of Art, London in the 1980s and worked for twenty years as an illustrator. Since 2007 she has pursued a career in painting. She has had solo exhibitions in galleries throughout the UK and her work has been shown in several major open exhibitions including The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts (RGI). In 2010, she was winner of the Art Exposure Gallery Award at the RGI. In 2012, her work was selected for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition at the Mall Galleries, London and she was a runner up for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize.