Art Collection

Artist: Rachel Alanna Webb

Rachel’s work is a quest to make the viewer see objects in a new way. Most of us view things in the safe way we were taught to view them. We know that a car is a car, because of course it looks like a car. But what if we were shown these objects in a new way? Rachel has chosen to make art out of such everyday objects and introduces us to a new way of seeing. She has taken plants as her subject because being surrounded by them on a day-to-day basis, we take them very much for granted. Her medium is photography and she has digitally manipulated the images to render them obscure. Rachel used only black and white in order to present objects in their barest form, with no colour association we are forced to view the essence of shape only.

A strong Japanese influence runs through this work, in particular the use of line and calligraphy. Another influence is the eerie black and white illustrations by Charles Keeping used in the poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes.