An exhibition by Rachel Pendered and Zach Rush, at The Old Lifeboat House in Porthleven, Cornwall. November 2025.

Showing a collection of paintings, silkscreen prints & sketchbooks inspired by our wanders and our wonders.

2025

Silkscreen printed onto linens and cottons, various

Inspired by Navdanya, Vandana Siva’s Earth University in India. Navdanya promotes biodiversity conservation and Earth Democracy. ‘Marigold borders’ is inspired by our time spent on the farm, learning organic growing practises such as growing natural pesticides, seed saving, crop diversity, and soil health. This print is inspired by the importance of community and our collective responsibility and connection to the land, working alongside and protecting the rights of other species. Inspired by Indian wood block prints.

2025

Illustrations for Gorse Bakery merchandise

November 2025

Wandering Wondering

An exhibition by Rachel Pendered and Zach Rush, in Porthleven Cornwall

2025

Till and Fred on the sofa in Suffolk

silkscreen printed onto heavy cartridge paper

2025

Illustration for Gorse Bakery merchandise

2025

Silkscreen printed onto fabriano paper, 500mm X 700mm

This print contains a collection of memories and motifs from Mexico, inspired by the tapestries at the folklore museum in Mexico city. Coyotes in the volcanoes, muy picante peppers, quesadillas, alarm clock birds, Falafel our favourite beach dog, cochineal insects that make red dye, Frida’s kitchen table, and our staple mango boing.

Partridges in a pear tree

Winters walk

Riso printed onto recycled paper, 2025

Mural commission for lanteague studios. Illustrated site map of all the independent businesses in the units.

Searching for a hidden peak

Sandwiches and wine

Camp set up

Chocolatine!

Harvesting Panicum Virgatum to be dried and arranged into Christmas wreaths.

In September 2022 my partner Zach and I went on a four month trip, starting in Nepal and traveling down to the South of India. We kept sketchbooks along the way to document our adventures. Here is a small collection of the many watercolour paintings I made along the way.

For dad. A silkscreen print made up of six colour layers, composed from my drawings of my mum, sister and hound in the garden. From a time when dad was in too much pain to do anything but sleep, we kept ourselves busy bringing nice things indoors from the garden to roast on the fire and boil up into membrillo.

Below is another printed edition with two colour layers. Both versions available to purchase on my online shop.

Illustrated branding for Lickety Ice, an ice lolly company based in Suffolk.

In 2021 Lickety Ice launched their compostable lolly wrappers, collected in a comPOST bin given to each of their suppliers. The wrappers get collected and taken back to their allotment to help grow the fruit for their lollies. I worked with Lickety Ice to illustrate their wrappers and compost bin in 2021, and recently revisited this project, illustrating website banners and lolly flavours for their new website.

Message card design for Petalon flowers. To be sent out with their postal box bouquets over the festive period.

Documenting the strings of home grown foliage hanging up to dry in the barn, before being made into christmas wreaths.

Message card design for Petalon flowers, sent out with their postal box bouquets over the festive period.

Documenting the busy time for the florists in the studio, arranging home grown dried foliage into christmas wreaths.

Album artwork for Nick Kingswell’s EP ‘Sometimes when it’s raining, I imagine that it’s not’ released in July 2022.

3 layer riso print. The drawings make up the frames of a stop motion animation for Nick’s Spotify canvas.

Watercolour and ink designs printed onto recycled paper. 2024

Illustrated swing tag design for Naked Generation, a slow fashion company based in Cornwall.

Selling beautiful Indian wood block printed dresses and textiles, Naked Generation is a celebration of ancient craft, sustainability and sisterhood. A small and mighty company who create ethically made, small batch, soulful clothing that you treasure forever.

Sunflower cards for winter solstice.

Risograph printed with blue, black and gold soya-based inks on recycled paper by Roots Press based in Porthtowan, Cornwall.

Riso printed album artwork for Nick Kingswell’s latest song ‘Midnight in Melbourne’. The drawings in the album artwork make up the frames for the stop motion animated Spotify canvas.

A limited amount of these prints are available to purchase from my shop.

The Three Sisters is an ancient Indigenous American growing technique that I read about it Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Sweetcorn, squash and runner beans are companion plants, forming a symbiotic relationship when planted next to each other.

This is a six layer silkscreen print.

The Three Sisters is an ancient Indigenous American growing technique that I read about it Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Sweetcorn, squash and runner beans are companion plants, forming a symbiotic relationship when planted next to each other.

This is a two layer silkscreen print, available to purchase from my online shop.

Silkscreen printed fabric tree hangings that I made for the Tales of the Forest exhibition at the create centre in Bristol, June 2019. Inspired by sisterhood and the memory of climbing trees whilst growing up. Tales of the Forest are a Bristol based ecological art project themed around storytelling and trees, woodlands and forests.

Crop from 1 of 3 tree hangings for the Tales of the Forest exhibition at the create centre in Bristol, June 2019. The trees are silkscreen printed onto calico fabric, and are 2m tall.

A Lino print inspired by a weekend in Wales full of blackberries, pears and an avocado tree found in the compost heap.

Printed on A2 300gsm Fabriano paper using Gamblin black oil based ink.

Apple picker

Witchy mulled wine

each card design is a limited edition of 60. Riso printed by Roots press in Cornwall. Printed with soy based inks on recycled paper.

A riso printed stop motion animation inspired by the peaceful and liberating feeling you get from a solitary sea swim!

A3 Riso prints of the animation frames are up for sale on my shop.

Printed by Eco Park Press in Cornwall, made with soy based inks and banana leaf masters, on 100% recycled paper!

Poster design for Wilder’s Thali Finali at Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Porthtowan, Cornwall.

Foragers

Moonies

each card design is a limited edition of 60. Riso printed by Roots press in Cornwall. Printed with soy based inks on recycled paper.

My first drypoint etching and aquatint of Alison’s farmhouse kitchen. This image was originally a drawing in my sketchbook that I traced onto an etching plate.

I had the pleasure of working with Lickety Ice on their new compostable packaging, launched summer 2021. This comprised of an illustrated com’post’ bin to collect the wrappers, an illustrated A-frame board, and 12 label designs for their lollies.

An image inspired by David Attenborough’s witness statement, A Life On Our planet. “There’s a chance to make amends, manage our impact and once again become a species in balance with nature, all we need is the will to do so”.

I was asked by Freddie Grubb to be the illustrator for their project ‘The Tour: discover the neighbourhood’ a pocket-sized guide to Islington.

Having always used drawing as a way to document my surroundings, I was really excited to be part of Freddie Grubb’s The Tour project, with a brief that meant I got to visit Islington (an area of London that I had never been before) and explore.

Following Freddie Gubb’s map of 25 locations to find and draw, it felt like a treasure hunt of Islington’s hidden jewels. Walking through the farmers market as people bought their weekly veg, drawing the regulars getting fish from Steve Hatt’s fishmongers, sitting one afternoon at Pophams bakery and watching as a constant stream of locals queued for their mouth-watering pastries. All of this felt like a real insight into daily life in Islington, and I hope that I have captured this feeling within The Tour and helped Freddie Grubb encourage you to visit all of these wonderful places.

Designed and produced by Freddie Grubb

Photography by Harry Grunfeld

Project inspired by Oxfam’s second hand September campaign. I screen printed banners onto deadstock calico fabric (and other second hand fabric finds) to celebrate how garments and patterns can evolve over time through passing down.

Riso print pattern, part of my slow fashion project celebrating second hand clothes.

“A magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself” (George Monbiot 2019). A tree is a natural climate solution, and a tool we could use to repair our broken climate. This is an A3 silkscreen print made for Wunderkammer, Falmouth university’s annual illustration magazine. I was later asked to turn this design into a poster for the exhibition Loose Idea.

Silkscreen printed repeat flower print inspired by my favourite jumper. This print is part of my slow fashion project celebrating second hand clothes.

Vegetable underwear to encourage the wearer to eat seasonally!

Short comic about my amazing sister that I made for international women’s day, made into an 8-fold riso printed zine.

Riso printed comic that I entered into the 2019 Jonathan cape graphic short story prize, that I later made into a zine.