Rachel Kice is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, writing, and performance. Her path as an artist reflects her belief in the transformative power of creativity to shape the self and reality.

Stashed in the Pike National Forest in Colorado since 2024, Rachel is working on a new series of abstract paintings made in dialogue with her novel-in-progress. The paintings—many created on the forest floor—incorporate snow, dirt, and found materials. The process began as an experiment: to write a protagonist who painted differently than she did. To understand the character, Rachel started painting as that person might. Over time, the boundary between fiction and self blurred. The story and paintings now shape each other.

Rachel first became known for her expressive live painting performances with the Nashville artist collective MuzikMafia, sharing the stage with artists like Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, and other popular American musical artists. Her paintings are part of public and private collections, including the Tennessee State Museum, Warner Brothers, Sony, Berklee College of Music, and CAA. Over the years, she has collaborated with organizations such as TEDx, MUSICARES, Emerson University’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, and Crocs/Hey Dude.

In 2021, her Oracle of Associated Light—a card deck and guidebook based on abstracted word paintings—was selected as a Kickstarter “Project We Love.” The work bridged her visual and literary practices and offered a new tool for creative reflection and lateral thinking.

She shares parts of her process through short-form videos on Instagram (@rachelkice)—some raw, some funny, always rooted in her ongoing exploration of art, the allocation of meaning, and emotion.

When not making art, Rachel offers private hypnotherapy sessions or goes hiking off-path. Mostly, though, she’s proudly co-dependent with her sweet dog, Prince.