Rachael Jane MacDonald began her career at art college, completing a degree in Performance Costume. Years of designing and making for theatre and working as a designer for her own fashion label led her to realise her love was really for textiles and she returned to complete her MA in Textiles. She has since been evolving as a textile artist and painter. Scottish folktales, superstitions and beliefs inform her current work. These narratives give a sense of how people used to experience their world; as a multi-dimensional and symbolic shifting place imbued with a sense of possibility and otherness. Rachael draws her visuals from a mindful engagement with nature – layering colours, marks and pigments in a reflective and intuitive way to encapsulate the sense of otherworldliness held within folktales.