Sundown on the Lagoon by Rachael Cassiani
Rachael Cassiani

Rachael Cassiani

 

Rachael Cassiani is a self-taught abstract painter with an intuitive sense of composition and color. 

 

Born on the Island in 1992, Rachael began her career selling her work at flea markets on Martha’s Vineyard. She has experimented with many different mediums including acrylics, watercolors and pencil sketches before turning her focus to water-soluble oil paints. Her paintings are a rich exploration of Island land and seascapes, crafted in an abstracted style reminiscent of Cubist landscapes.  She paints in a tight hand, controlling the composition by reducing it into brightly colored shapes that become multiple planes of harmonious colors. 

 

Rachael gravitates to colors that are vibrant and bold, while her placement of color is intentional and conveys a sophisticated understanding of color theory. “I choose the structure of the paintings by looking at my scene and seeing where the most dominant hues are,” she says. “I exaggerate the natural colors of the original landscape.”

 

Even before Rachael was represented professionally she had grown a robust community of supporters on Instagram, where she is able to share her paintings as well as behind-the-scenes glimpses of life as an Island artist with people around the world.  “Instagram is its own universe,” Rachael says. “I realized I could reach so many people, in a small-town-girl meets the big world kind of way.” 

 

Rachael has done commission work for Sloan Kettering Department of Medicine, through the Octavia Art Gallery in New Orleans. Her work also has been featured in the online galleries, My Modern Met and Colossal, as well as in the Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. She lives in Oak Bluffs. 

 

Here she is speaking with other artists about her work!

 

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Sundown on the Lagoon
Rachael Cassiani
Oil on Board
6" x 6"     Framed: 7" x 7"
2023
$350
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