Rachel Hirabayashi

Rachel Hirabayashi

  • Biography

    Rachel is based in Cromwell, Central Otago, living in a 110-year old cottage with her dogs and a large garden. She is a full-time artist painting in acrylics and making sculptures out of metal. Living for some time in Japan and Mexico, which has strongly influenced her creative output, as does living in this unique, ancient environment of ours. The surfaces of her paintings are built up over time, of light glazes of colour alternating with opaque layers of paint. Rachel has a degree in Art History/Theory from the University of Otago.
    In the tabletop sculptures Hirabayashi provides the same quiet stillness that is synonymous with her paintings. Made from steel these braised intrigues are meant to gain a patina. The thin coating colouring their appearance is a way to evoke the weathered terrain of Hirabayashi’s home landscape in Central Otago. Even when rocked they return to a centred stillness.
    Born in Auckland 1965 but a traveller by nature Hirabayashi has lived in Japan and Mexico, travelled through the Americas, Europe and Asia but comes home to her beloved dogs in her fabulous cottage and garden in Cromwell. Her formal education was done at Otago University and is supplemented by regular trips in “Fordita” her camper van. From the drivers seat Hirabayashi gathers a headful of images that inform her daily making and painting.
    Rachel is part of a major Avis campaign across Australasia called the Art of Discovery. Check her youtube video
    https://youtu.be/7-ccOGI0fwM

Showing 1–60 of 161 artworks

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2024
14 x 28.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board $475.00

Rachel Hirabayashi

Beneath Dunstan II, 2023
60 x 50 x 2 cm Acrylic on canvas $2,800.00

Rachel Hirabayashi

A Moment Before series, 2023
60 x 80 x 2 cm Acrylic on canvas $4,800.00

Rachel Hirabayashi

Lost Gorge, 2023
60 x 90 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas $4,800.00

Rachel Hirabayashi

Home Coming, 2023
50 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas $2,800.00

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer Series, 2024
14 x 29 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

The Flock, 2024
14 x 32 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Flock series, 2024
14 x 28.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2024
14 x 30.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2024
14 x 27.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2024
23.5 x 14 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2024
26 x 14 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

The Moment Before series, 2024
14 x 26.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

The Flock series, 2024
14 x 26.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

The Flock series, 2024
14 x 27.8 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2023
14 x 24.7 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2023
14 x 26.5 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Home Coming series, 2023
22.4 x 14 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Home Coming series, 2023
14 x 26 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Flock series, 2023
24 x 14 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Homecoming, 2023
21 x 14 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

A Moment Before, 2023
14 x 30 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Lost Gorge, 2023
25 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Come Home, 2023
14 x 23 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneers, 2023
14 x 23 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

The Flock series, 2023
40 x 80 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

UnderSky series, 2023
80 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Inundation, 2023
60 x 80 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Flock Series, 2023
50 x 76 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Gold Town Series, 2022
50 x 100 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

St Bathans - Silhouette, 2022
28 x 45 x 4 cm acrylic on board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Golden Lake - Silhouette, 2022
53.5 x 80 x 4 cm acrylic on board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Southern Lake - Silhouette, 2022
60 x 120 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Under Sky Series, 2022
Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Flock Series, 2022
65 x 44 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Coastal Worship, 2022
31 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Under Sky Series, 2022
40 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Flock Series, 2022
60 x 75 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Home, 2022
40 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Coast Town, 2022
30 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Coastal Worship, 2022
30 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Under Water series, 2022
50 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Under Water series, 2022
75 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer series, 2022
50 x 75 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Gold Town Series, 2022
50 x 75 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Under the Lake series, 2022
45 x 28 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneers, 2022
50 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Home, 2022
35 x 40 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Gold Town, 2022
35 x 40 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Northern Southland, 2022
25 x 50 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Gold Town, 2021
50 x 100 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Coastal Town, 2021
30 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Upper Clutha, 2021
60 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

The Flock, 2021
80 x 60 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Northern Southland, 2021
50 x 50 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Overland, 2021
100 x 60 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Pioneer Series, 2021
14 x 25 x 2 cm acrylic on floor board Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Overland Series, 2021
30 x 30 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Southland, 2021
38 x 75 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold

Rachel Hirabayashi

Flock Series, 2021
30 x 40 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Sold