Biography

Rachel Hooton was born in 1980 near Chicago, IL. Being an only child, she had to learn at a young age to keep herself occupied and found art to be one of her major hobbies. She was always painting pictures and won several contests throughout her childhood. Being influenced mostly by her art teachers in her junior and senior years in high school, they gave her the passion to keep on pursuing her art long after. She began painting primarily with acrylics around the age of seventeen, and part of her collection resides here today.

Presently, Rachel resides in Seattle, WA, and is working on a degree in Art Education/Art Therapy. She would mainly like to focus on teaching/helping urban youth. She is also a vegetarian of 7 years, and a political activist, involving herself in many protests and networks that promote positive changes in communities in the Seattle area and around the world.

Artist Statement

Since I was a kid, I always dreamed of making a difference. I wasn't the best Math student, so being the next Einstein was out, and Science wasn't my greatest subject, either, so becoming the next Newton was also a very long shot. ;)

Although it took some time, I finally found my creative zeal through my social experiences, political knowledge and artistic capabilities. From then on, I wanted to paint the most beautiful paintings in the world. I wanted to be Mother Teresa's successor. I wanted to be the photographer that took the most astounding photograph to ever graze the cover of National Geographic or Time Magazine.

But more than just astounding, I wanted my artwork to be impacting. I wanted people to see the reality of the world, through their own eyes; seeing their own interpretations of what is truly happening out there, what their purpose here is, and all hopefully with the help from my work. All I wanted was to make people to go home and think about the ongoing affairs that are really wrong with this world and what they can do themselves to try to help, even if it is only just a little.

I am tired of the apathy that many people have in the U.S. and all over the world. My generation never had any compassionate, idealistic idols to look up to. Neither does this one. If we keep ignoring ourselves and give in to the massive consumerism and lethargy that turns us all into a giant "herd of cattle," the eventual overall destruction of our relations with this planet and the people that inhabit it is inevitable. Realizing that makes me nearly heartbroken, but I haven't lost hope. My art is constantly changing with new styles and messages, but I always strive to try to show people through my work that there is a different path people can take; a different path for each of us that can lead us all to be more globally content and generally happier with our
lives.

My art gives me a voice; a reason to live. A reason to fight back. And I hope others will join me.

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