Rachel Howard is a British painter, who has exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 3 decades, and whose works are held in public and private collections worldwide. She was born in 1969, in County Durham, England, and graduated from Goldsmith's College in 1991 with a degree in, Fine Art and Critical Theory. Howard plays with the tensions between control and chaos, order and entropy, making and unmaking, beauty and destruction. She revels in the sheer joy of her material. The intense physicality of her process grapples with notions of uncertainty, fragility, beauty and horror. Religion, repetition, mortality, madness and violence are recurring themes in the work.