Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Currently she is working as a Principle Instructor at The Florence Academy of Art Sweden.

Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenges of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes.