The knife. The light.

Rachel paints only in oil, applied with a palette knife. No brushes touch the canvas.

Her subjects are the Chassidic masters, luminaries and gedolei Yisroel. The Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Frierdiker Rebbe. The Baba Sali. Rav Ovadia Yosef. The Alter Rebbe. HaRav Kook.

The painting begins in the seforim. Rachel studies each subject before a knife touches canvas. The face arrives once the soul is understood.

Every canvas is an original, signed in oil, with a signed certificate of authenticity. Her work is collected in Miami, Crown Heights, Jerusalem, London, and Geneva.