Rachael Dickens makes work using a wide variety of materials .
She trained at Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s in Fine Art Textiles.
Much of her early work is inspired by cold water swimming, at outdoor pools in London and across the UK. ln 2015 after relocating from London, swimming moved into the murky waters of The North Sea off the Kent coast. Painting followed suit with big murky seascapes. Some of her work responded to the plight of refugees arriving on the shores. In 2021 she moved to Greece for a year, swimming and painting and experimenting with lino and silk screen printing. Now back in the UK and working almost entirely in Ceramics.