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Rebecca Barnard SWAc
Rebecca Barnard’s practice centres on intuitive, oil-based abstract painting. Having lived in Europe in her early life, her work remains influenced by the spaces and light of those formative years, as well as by more recent travels that continue to inform her sensitivity to colour, atmosphere, and rhythm. These experiences shape her distinctive painterly voice, grounded in both memory and continual discovery. Her most recent paintings move between subtle evocations of place and pure abstraction, where emotional and practical decisions around palette, form, and mark-making take centre stage.
"My work is a continual exploration of the balance between intention and spontaneity; control and letting go. Over time, this inquiry has shaped my voice in paint: an evolving dialogue where intuition leads, and discovery becomes the heart of the process."
Rebecca lives and works in Somerset and has an MA (Fine Art) from Falmouth School of Art. She is a member of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts and has exhibited widely, with both solo and group shows in prestige galleries in London and across the country. She exhibits in a range of open exhibitions, including the Royal West of England Academy, the Society of Women Artists, and the Bath Society of Artists.
REBECCA BARNARD - GALLERY OF WORK
PAINTING
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 90cm x 120cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 90cm x 90cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 100cm x 100cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 156cm x 126cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 90cm x 90cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 90cm x 90cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 90cm x 90cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charc
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 120cm x 100cm
by Rebecca Barnard Oil and charcoal on canvas 100cm x 100cm
by Rebecca Barnard 156cm x 126cm Oil and charcoal on canvas.
SCULPTURE / 3D
by Rebecca Barnard Mixed media sculpture Materials include Plaster, jesmonite, raffia, hessian, wire and various studio detritus.
by Rebecca Barnard Works in plaster, ceramic, string, hessian and other studio detritus.
by Rebecca Barnard Part of the Installation The Machinery has Started. 380 stoneware, porcelain and earthenware heads were used.
by Rebecca Barnard Part of the installation "The Machinery has Started" 2023.
Installation work by Rebecca Barnard Sculpture, sound and film
by Rebecca Barnard Stone, plaster, hessian, oil paint, cold wax
Stoneware Heads waiting their turn patiently. Rebecca created 130 heads in preparation for her exhibition, "Catharsis."
Solo exhibition "Catharsis" 2023 - a sound and visual installation in participation with the Somerset community.
by Rebecca Barnard Stoneware Head in wax encaustic with filled scars
by Rebecca Barnard for "Catharsis"
by Rebecca Barnard Close up of sculpture for The Machinery has Started.