About

Hi, I’m Rachel

Welcome to Tickled Pink Art Studio. You’ll find me in the foothills of Mt Baw Baw, in Hill End, Gippsland.

Rachel, smiling, at her market stall

How I started

Gidday.

Creative, colourful and fun, I learnt the art of paint pouring in August 2017 via Pinterest and YouTube. I painted for fun, painting everything I could find: canvasses, clocks, place-mats and coasters.

Then I discovered I could do something with the pretty run-off paint drips: I could turn it into jewellery! Each piece is unique and one-off, which makes it tricky to make a ‘pair’ of earrings. Not identical, but they are a pair.

I had amassed quite a collection of hand-painted items and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them all. My husband encouraged me to have a market stall. So I did, with my first being in January 2018 in Paynesville, and I thoroughly enjoy attending markets across Gippsland.

Proudly born and bred in Bairnsdale, I now live in Hill End.

Wearable art

From a pour to a pair

All my earrings and pendants are created using my own original artwork, and finished off with crystal clear resin.

A paint pour close up: bands of violet, red, gold, green and blue with cells of colour
The pour
Rachel at her bench in a visor, working on a small piece, with a tray of finished pieces beside her
At my bench
A finished lever-back close up: rainbow waves on a dark ground, set in stainless steel
Set in steel, under resin
A 12 mm lever-back earring worn
Ready to wear

One of a kind

Each piece is unique and one-off. The item photographed is the item you will receive.

Set in stainless steel

Stainless steel is tarnish resistant and durable.

Australian materials

I source all of my findings, paint and resin from Australian suppliers.

Made by hand

All my products are made by hand, and each piece is made with joy in my heart.

Two opal studs resting on a rough piece of opal, on a bed of opal chips
An opal mosaic stud close up: chips of opal with flashes of pink and green

From my family’s mine

Opals from White Cliffs

My Mum and Dad mine opal at White Cliffs, in outback New South Wales. Their mine, and the opal pieces I make, have a page of their own.

Read the story
Shop the opals

I also paint

Old trucks and corry iron

In Hill End we have the annual Tanjil Valley Art Show, which I have entered corry iron paintings of trucks: usually old trucks that belong to my friends in Hill End.

There is something quite special about old trucks… and old corry iron.

A log truck among tall trees, painted by Rachel on old corrugated iron
A sunrise behind tall grass, painted by Rachel

Inspiration is everywhere… and often strikes as I am drifting off to sleep, when I will ‘see’ a beautiful colour combo or another fun idea. Hopefully I can remember the idea in the morning… and yes, I do often write ideas down.

Yours in creative fun and colour,
Rachel

See the newest pieces
Find me at a market