Rachel Pinel is a figurative realist painter based in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. She completed her academic training in drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, following earlier studies at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and the I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Russia.
Her work has been recognised in several prestigious art prizes, including as a finalist in both the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award and the AME Bale Art Prize.