# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/By-yF0gF1HL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044596-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/eaef56e1d2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-06-21T17:56:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Rachel Goodyear (b. 1978) is a UK-based artist who works primarily in pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper to create macabre drawings of women and animals situated within fantastical and unsettling scenarios. The delicate drawings are usually small scale and unnervingly capture the edge between the real and the imagined. Goodyear’s mythological works on paper tiptoe into psychosis and disturbed realms that feature animals and women with spooky elements like masquerade masks, tall pointed hats, and blindfolds. Goodyear explains: “My characters present precarious relationships, both animal and human reflecting vulnerabilities, fear, desire, greed and self-preservation. Scenarios that are bleak, macabre and absurd lure the viewer into a world that is not all that it seems. Characters that, at first glance, appear vulnerable, display body language that suggest they are actually defiant (and vice versa). Each drawing displays a balance that can tip either way."
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Image: Photograph by Michael Pollard, 2016. Courtesy of Creative Boom.

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