Rachael Foster 17 views   8 clicks ♡

910 x 455mm

1500 x 900mmRomantic themes contemplate the passing of time, blending together a mixture of eclectic vintage sensibilities with modern atmospherics. My witty and engaging style of painting is intelligently conceived with a comedic twist. Light and carefree, bold and immediate, each Rachael Foster pi...

1200 x 1200mmWe drove down a dirt track to the beach on a surf trip in Taranaki. While the boys were checking out the waves I went for a little wander and came across this 2 toned blue house-bus fenced off with driftwood and an old Taranaki gate, those ridiculous flimsy ones that don’t exactly swi...

500 x 500mmInitially a Khmer state, Lao being a mountainous and landlocked country was later used by the French as a buffer state to protect Vietnam. During the Vietnam War the United States dropped 1.9 million tonnes of bombs on Lao, mostly in the northeast. I remember walking through a field to se...

Triptych each 750 x 410mmRomantic themes contemplate the passing of time, blending together a mixture of eclectic icons with modern atmospherics. My witty and engaging style of painting is intelligently conceived with a comedic twist. Light and carefree, bold and immediate, each Rachael Foster piece...

1000 x 800mmI spent a couple of months back in 2005, traipsing through South Africa and Swaziland, spending most of my time in the wild Transkei. I felt that this was the real South Africa I'd come to see. The Xhosa homelands, full of rich traditional life and music. In the morning's girls sing as t...

850 x 500mmA take off the 'Lynn of Tawa' if you're kiwi, and grew up in the 80s, you'll know.Colgate company bought this for their boardroom.

800 x 420mmStretched Canvas

- Find your Freedom -1200 x 800mmThose times where the heart simultaneously yearns for the freedom and whimsy of youth, yet the comfort and wisdom of age; when memories crystallise around borrowed nostalgia from an unlived era; where long, lazy summer evenings and salt-licked beach trips seemed all...

1200 x 800cmI did 5 years in England and didn’t want to leave, however, I moved back to Auckland and have spent a the last 6months living nowhere, living out of a bag, housesitting. Amongst everything I’m doing, I’m making art and it’s good because it’s always a different environment to cr...

- GEM OF THE SOUTH HAMS -The girl in the red and white striped bikini lolls peacefully on the foredeck, sipping campari and soda. Her young mind turned taut with the spectre of age looming, but for now softening, soaking up the tendrils of Billie Holliday curling their infectious way out of the cabi...

- TOUR OF BRITAIN -1200 x 800mmThere are warriors who transcend toughness and resilience, cutting a fine line between the brave and the reckless. In search of that perfect moment, when piston thighs and calves strung like a bow whistle in the wind. The symbiotic mechanics of body and machine sing a...

1200 x 800mmIn a more wistful time, coils of rope and clumsy stacks of lobster pots sat caked in the ghostly, salt-cracked sheen of Neptune’s kiss. A flock of seagulls squabbled overhead like teenagers, nervous with hunger and hormones. Multi-coloured houses toothed the surrounding hills, their bo...