Rachel Larkins has always been drawn to objects behind glass, perhaps in recognition that someone from the past has preserved those things considered precious and ephemeral; mourning jewellery holding hair; bell jars holding birds, insects or dolls; dioramas and ships in bottles. The wearable pieces are influenced by the intimacy and hidden stories of small scale miniatures as well as by folklore and fairy tales.

She works from a studio in a village near the New Forest. Following an early training in Textile Art, She graduated with an MA in Sequential Design/ Illustration from the University of Brighton in 2013. Exhibiting regularly in the UK and abroad, creating and selling work for private and public collections for more than twenty years, receiving a number of awards over this time, from the British Toymakers Guild and the Arts Council , to a Peer Prize by fellow makers at MADE London. More recently She was one of the designers who created ‘Created for Charleston’ collections for Charleston Farmhouse award winning museum shop.