Rachael Foster

Rachael Foster is an artist. A fresh kiwi painter with a super realism style.

Through her painting, she wants to share with you her delight in the ordinary things of New Zealand. They are leftovers of a culture that is already dying. Kiwiana, that is. Fast vanishing icons that tell a real story about life in a bygone time.

Her love for ridiculously bright and poppy colours is inspired mostly by 1950s advertising with humorously exaggerated ways of looking at things with barely-veiled conformity slogans telling you which detergent to buy and the life you could have.

Rachael was a founding student of the North Shore Children's Art House Foundation in 1994. This was her second home where she thrived on the encouragement and freedom of Shona-Hammond Boyes and her husband Meulis. In 2000 she won "emerging artist of the year" award which Keisha Castle-Huges won the year after.

It is with much pleasure that we represent the impressive work of Rachael Foster at Gallery De Novo. Her works have certainly made quite an impact in the gallery since arriving in July, with visitors, artists and art collectors all admiring the strength and quality of her work.