15th September – 10th October

Opening celebration: Saturday 18 September 6pm-8pm

Having recently moved from the wild coastal scenery of Thunder Point in Warrnambool, Rachel Peters has found a new neighbourhood. It’s a different type of beauty here, represented by The Warrnambool Botanical Gardens and its annex, the Swan Reserve. They are a curated oasis, a little known garden with Australian native plants, found near the middle of town.

The Gardens provide inspiration daily as Rachel walks and absorbs the varieties, shapes, forms and colours ever-changing in both these places. She likes to stand back and see the grandeur of trees, which are over a hundred years old, and then get up close and see the intricate design in plants carefully planted in vignettes around the spaces.

In this body of work, Rachel has moved away from more textured multi-media works to use acrylic paint and charcoal in order to create texture in the marks used on canvas.

It’s been an endearing way to get to know her surroundings and learn to love yet another part of creation.