Self Portrait as a Florist, 500pc

500 Piece Puzzle featuring the artwork of Rachel Hayden.

Rachel Hayden’s paintings seek order in chaos by puzzle-piecing together a handful of objects into balanced and symmetrical compositions. The artist creates full yet uncluttered canvases where figures float harmoniously in midair without touching. Hayden’s work repeatedly depicts different iterations of a small number of natural subjects, such as rainbows and shooting stars—often anthropomorphized with human faces.

Rachel Hayden was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Hayden’s work has been exhibited at 5-50 Gallery in Queens, NY (2023), Headstone Gallery in Kingston, NY (2023) and Hashimoto Contemporary (2022).