Rachel Borntrager Art

Art to Honor Wholeness

Northwest Arkansas artist Rachel Borntrager is an abstract expressionist painter with a background in traditional painting and graphic design. Using her signature somatic-inspired technique, which she calls the “Soma-Line Method”, she merges elemental principles of art and creative wellness by incorporating aspects of somatic therapy in her paintings.

She uses layers of fluid paint and cathartic pastel mark-making on raw canvas to express memories held by the body; each line, color-blend, and shape points to a specific memory or moment of breathing.

While Rachel is best known for her abstracts, she also creates landscapes and portraits in pastels, graphite, gouache, watercolor, and acrylic paints. 

Rachel sells her original paintings online and at her studio, accepts commissions for portraits, and holds workshops at a variety of venues in Northwest Arkansas, including world-class Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges.

Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Rachel exhibits her work in local galleries, public and private spaces such as Nelagoney Glen, and in support of organizations like 99 Balloons.