Rachel Davis

Rachel Davis is a mixed media artist and ikebanaist (Japanese flower arranger), born and bred in New York City, and thrilled to call the San Francisco Bay Area home. In her portraiture celebrating women, figurative work exploring memory, and in Asian inspired abstraction, Davis evokes transformation in feeling states. Richly textured and layered, her work invites the viewer to search beneath the surface. She is also pulled to beauty for it’s own sake, and to pure play and abandon. The freedom to move back and forth between mediums and moods is central to keeping joy at the helm of her creative process.

Davis received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, and, as Ruth Davis Kalb, her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University’s Derner institute. She’s been mentored in Ikebana for twenty plus years and has studied classical portraiture as well as mixed media art and printmaking. Davis’s work has been juried into shows nationally and internationally, was recently in the de Young Open exhibition, and is in collections across the United States, in Europe, the middle east and in Australia. She has a coaching practice helping artists deal with creative blocks and imposter syndrome, and is a frequently invited guest on art podcasts and online membership groups.

Davis's studio is in the historic ICB Building in Sausalito California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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