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Welcome to My Portfolio !

Hi, my name’s Rachel Hammond while I was born in New Zealand, I grew up & went to school in Australia. My grandmother, Pearl Daniels was an artist in the Canterbury region for many years and ever since I was 14, that was all I wanted to be…..

I graduated from high school in Grafton on the north coast of New South Wales completing 3 unit Art and won the Excellence award for 2 and 3 unit Art.

I was accepted into the BA Graphic Design at Canberra University and completed 2 of the 3 years before changing my majors to Law & Psychology !!!

On my return to New Zealand, I played around with various art forms trying to find one which suited me. There was coloured clay, stoneware, Papier Mache, wirework, drawing, photography, computer generated design, but at the moment have found oil painting to be the thing i enjoy most.

Paintings

My painting examples here are from a few series I have done and am doing.

My coin art series sold out and I was asked to paint the imperial coins so it went from there….

Just click on the pics, mouse over the left or right hand sides to go forward or back, click anywhere outside the box to close it.

For larger versions, scroll down the page to the links.

Drawings

The first 2 drawings were a dyptich done in aquarelles… so drawing and painting…..

I dont have many examples of drawing as I’m not a sketcher but tend to draw with one hard outline… which is why I gravitate to more pop art styles…

Mixed Media / Graphic Design /Photography

Below, the self portrait in Diet coke…. I saved diet coke labels for years… the one constant in my life. I used acid free silicon to attach them to a deep canvas then used oil paint to do the portrait. 20″x12″

Also included in the gallery are 2 of the mockups done for a Rolling Stone cover which included getting a model and doing everything from there.

Working Drawings and Sketch book entries

Most of my preliminary drawings are done in the closest possible pen which is usually ink ! I use the computer more now to draw as this can be done with 2 fingers (my hand function is bad when clutching a pen….) Mostly words help the process…

Squashed V Bottlecap Oil on Canvas

2 Cent Australian Oil on Canvas

5 Cent Australian Oil on Canvas

One Penny Heads & Tails Oil on Canvas

Redback $1 Aust. Oil on Canvas

New Zealand Drawing pencil and watercolour on Paper

Australia Drawing pencil and watercolour on Paper

Pen on Paper Drawing “Morepork”

Rolling Stone Cover #1

Rolling Stone Cover #2

Working drawing #1 including own photography

Working drawing #2 including drawing

Working drawing #3 including drawing
Working drawing #4 including drawing
Working drawing #5 including drawing

Working drawing #6 Prelim for oil painting below

Beginning of oil painting