Tracy Rees was born in 1963. She studied Art & Design at Suffolk College, East Anglia gaining a diplomas in Graphics Design and Illustration. From 1982 until 1987 Tracy Rees was a Paste-up Artist for Peter Dodd Design Ipswich.

After working as a Graphic Designer for a few years Tracy Rees moved to Cornwall in 1987. She undertook further studies at Falmouth School of Art in 1987-89 obtaining an HND in Ceramics. Following that Tracy became a Ceramicist, while also working part-time as Ceramics Technician at the Penwith College from 1991-2011. In 2003 she began her painting career.

Tracy Rees is a keen observer of her surroundings. She records animals in seemingly mundane circumstances, capturing the essense of their personality in both a humorous and sensitive manner. Tracy Rees paintings connect with the simple pleasures and comforts of home, through the amusing antics and domestic lives of cats, dogs and garden birds. Often placing dogs and cats in a domestic scene, Tracy paints animals with quizical and perplexed expressions. Mischievousness and mystery abound and there is the occasional sense of melancholy in her paintings.

Tracy Rees creates soft dreamy, colourful paintings where cats prowl around the garden and haunt the tea tray. Her cats highlight the duality of nature - wild and tame, beautiful and disturbing and there is a magical quality that is subtle and understated, reminiscent of the great British artist Mary Feddon. Tracy's world also features birds singing out from faded wallpaper and dogs with guilty expressions, who delight in forbidden armchairs and hide under cosy eiderdowns.

In addition to Red Rag British Art Gallery Tracy Rees art work has been exhibited at other leading UK Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag Gallery is sourced from the Tracy Rees artist studio and like all Red Rag Modern British art it can be shipped worldwide.