By Natasha Fujimoto
INSPIRED by art as a cultivar of ideas and feelings and with a distinctive visual language that is reflective of her everyday joys and fears, Rachel Doller is one of Greater Shepparton’s most recognisable artists.
With eye-catching colour and bold geometric shapes, Rachel’s exuberant art and murals can be found on walls and in public spaces from Shepparton to Elmore.
No stranger to collaborative ventures with school students, Rachel’s latest project has brought together students from Scared Heart and Tatura primary schools to design and paint a Lake Bartlett inspired mural on the new toilet block in Charlie Taylor Park, Tatura.
Focusing on the theme of ‘Earth, Sun and Water,’ Rachel assisted students through a series of workshops to contribute to the mural design, which was then marked out on the toilet block.
Inviting students to paint the mural in small groups, Rachel said, “I’m so glad to be working on this project together with the students and I am thrilled that I have been able to use the students’ shapes, colours, patterns and drawings in the final design- they all produced some really great concepts!”
Commenting on how much they all enjoyed painting the mural and musing about what people would think of it into the future, enthusiastic painter and Tatura Primary School student Sam said, “I can tell my children and grandchildren that I helped paint this masterpiece!”
