Artist exploring thresholds through painting and drawing. Living in South East London.

Interested in indeterminacy / organic forms / constructed forms / nature plus / gateways / fences / things seen / things unseen / humour

Education / professional practice

Turps painting CC 2026/2027

I'm about to do this

Royal Drawing School, drawing intensive, 2026

I did a lot of drawing in the spring and summer of 2026

Royal College of Art, MA Visual Communication, 2019

Experimental comics: created a series of six-panel, risograph-printed comics about a fly who dies in every story, sold via an honesty box at the summer show.

Dissertation (distinction) on gaps, spaces and imagination.

Instagram: @rapturebird, email: r.e.cottrell@gmail.com