Rachel Illingworth

Contemporary Printmaker

Seattle, Washington

Rachel Illingworth is a Seattle-based visual artist working primarily in printmaking. Her layered, textural works begin with shellac-coated cardboard plates, a process that allows subtle variations across each edition and reflects her ongoing exploration of repetition, perception and light. Moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, Rachel captures the shifting interplay of light across built and natural environments. Her compositions draw on architectural form and organic stillness, evoking atmosphere as much as image.

Originally from Tasmania, Rachel studied at the University of Tasmania before finding her way to printmaking. A year of travel brought her to Seattle, where she now lives and works, still spending time in rural Victoria, Australia, a duality that shapes her visual language. She taught printmaking at Pratt Fine Arts Center for more than a decade.

Her work is held in private and public collections, including Nordstrom, the Westin Hotel, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the University of Washington Medical Center and Swedish Medical Center. In 2025 she was in residence in Blönduós, Iceland.