Rachael Johnson was born in Leeds in 1962 and spent her early years in the Fermanagh lakelands. She studied painting and printmaking in Canterbury College of Art and Design and completed her Fine Arts Degree in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1984. Rachael travelled extensively worldwide before returning to Ireland in 1991.

She is currently based in Derry where she is working as an Art Psychotherapist but continues to spend much of her free time painting in her late fathers’ studio in Enniskillen.

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"I use mixed media to create collage paintings on canvas. Creative material may include oil, gouache and acrylic paints, inks, pastels, textured papers, fabric and natural fibres, metal, wood, bone and other found objects"