Intuitive Imaginatives

Intuitive Imaginatives is a two dimensional visual art exhibition, and seeks to create works that look outside the traditions of high culture for inspiration.

Rachel Ireland-Meyers celebrates the natural and figurative worlds by creating daring, yet graceful landscapes, rich and bold in colour, imbued with imagination and soul. Each artwork is intuitive in that it emerges not out of any preconceived idea, but rather through the unique process of spontaneously layering free flowing colour and raw markings with carefully represented forms. Each artwork is a celebration of the present moment and Rachel finds great satisfaction and joy in allowing her paintings to emerge naturally and organically as she experiments with colour.

Like ‘The Child’ in Loris Malaguzzi’s (1920-1994) poem, Rachel tries to stay in touch with her inner child and not get caught up in the notion of being trained and educated. Rachel is someone who believes in a hundred ways of seeing.

The paintings in this exhibition reflect the style often referred to as Art Brut. Jean Dubuffet characterised Art Brut as:

“Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere, and thus because of these facts, are more precious than the productions of professions.”