Rachel Heller obituary

Artist whose vivid works were lauded by the likes of David Hockney and Maggi HamblingIn 1995, when she was 22, Rachel Heller had her first solo show, at the John Jones Art Centre in London. The exhibition sold out. This was not her first success, nor would it be her last. In 1986, when Heller was 13, a selection of her drawings was shown to the television grandee Jeremy Isaacs, who promptly bought one. In 2006, her figure study Lady Sleeping in Bed won the Hugh Casson drawing prize at the Royal