About
Bio
Rachel Dittrich is an impressionist artist producing vibrant oil paintings since 2021. Rachel explores the play of light in intimate, quiet moments and in bursts of movement and grandeur in life and nature.
Her work can be found in private collections in the UK, Canada, the USA and across Europe. Rachel has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Society of Graphic Fine Art, Chelsea Art Society and Southampton City Art Gallery. Her painting ‘The Dreamers’ was the winner of the Cass Art Solo Show Award at the Royal West of England Academy’s 170 Open Exhibition 2023.
Rachel was born in Hampshire and works in the UK cities of Southampton and Bath.
Exhibitions
2025
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries
Chelsea Art Society 76th Annual Exhibition
Society of Graphic Fine Art 104th Annual Open, Mall Galleries
Light in the Dark, Gallery Grounds, Southampton
Red House Open, Christchurch, Dorset
New Bath Arts Club.
Landscapes (solo exhibition), The Butcher’s Hook, Southampton
2024
Chelsea Art Society 75th Annual Exhibition
Pint sized, The Raven, Bath
The Golden Hour (solo exhibition), Cass Art, Bristol
New Bath Arts Club
Red House Open, Christchurch Dorset
Gosport Museum & Art Gallery Open
2023
Royal West of England Academy Annual Open 170, Bristol
Chelsea Art Society 74th Annual Exhibition
Open Walls Series 4 ‘People’s Choice‘, The Art Space, Cass Art, Bristol
Forest Arts Centre Open, Hampshire
The Spring Open, Hampshire
Red House Museum Open Art Exhibition, Dorset
Inspirational Women Artists, God’s House Tower, Southampton
2022
To see and be seen (solo exhibition), The Butcher’s Hook, Southampton
Southampton City Art Gallery Open Exhibition
Red House Museum Open Exhibition, Dorset
Art Cohort Winter Open, Bath
Awards
Cass Art Solo Show Award, RWA 2023
Artist statement
Artist statement
I consider myself foremost a portrait painter. Capturing the warmth or playfulness, calmness, gravitas, haunting depths or shining brightness of a person is what I aim for on top of the basic necessity of capturing a likeness. I enjoy freshening my mind and hand by painting anything that takes my fancy between portraits. You’ll see a lot of historic and archaeological sites and people in historical costume in my paintings. My first two degrees were in Archaeology and History and Medieval Culture respectively. I take pleasure in documenting my friends who are historical interpreters, costume makers and dancers and visually celebrating the products of their research and labour.
Commissions
Artist statement
Commissions
I will consider commissions for portraits of houses or people. Prices for commissioned oil portraits currently start at £650 plus postage. Prices for drawings start at £150 plus postage. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss a project or if you have seen an existing item in my gallery that you may wish to purchase.