I am an architectural abstract painter and colourist. My painting practice is shaped by a sustained engagement with architectural space, structure and the built environment.
Drawing on experience of places, travel and a long-standing fascination with buildings, I create imagined structures and off-kilter spaces in which form, spatial tension and colour become the means of constructing a sense of place. My paintings explore the line between harmony and instability, bringing together a sense of order with more intuitive and unpredictable elements.
Working primarily in oils, I develop my paintings through a process of construction, revision and paring back. I am interested in the tension between what is deliberately placed and what emerges through the act of painting, allowing recognisable architectural forms to shift into something more ambiguous. Colour is central to my process, used to establish atmosphere, rhythm and emotional weight, as well as to shape the structure of the painting itself.
I live and work in the West Country and completed an MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Falmouth School of Art in 2023. I have exhibited in selected solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad.
Please see my website www.rebeccabarnardart.com for further information.
Education: MA Fine Art (Dist.) - Falmouth School of Art. 2023
Memberships: South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts (SWAc), Network member of the Royal West of England Academy
Based: Somerset, UK
Rebecca holds an MA in Fine Art with Distinction 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 UK. Her paintings are held in private collections worldwide, and she is regularly selected to exhibit in a range of open exhibitions, including the Royal West of England Academy, the Society of Women Artists, and the Bath Society of Artists.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 "The Machinery has Started" - The Loft Gallery, Wells (Installation)
2022 "Catharsis" - Heritage Courtyard Gallery
2015 Cambridge Contemporary Art
2011 Langton Street Gallery, Chelsea
2010 Cambridge Contemporary Art
SELECTION OF RECENT MIXED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2026 Society of Women Artists, London
2026 Hong Kong, Hampstead AAF
Marine House Gallery, Devon2025
2025 Brownston Gallery, Devon
2025 Marine House Gallery, Devon
2024 The Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries
2024 The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2019, 21, 22, 23, 24 Bath Society of Artists, Bath
2023 The Loft Gallery, Heritage Courtyard, Wells
2020, 22, 23 RWA, Bristol
2022 The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives
2011 - 2021 Cambridge Contemporary Art
2020, 24 Society of Women Artists
2020 St Ives Contemporary Art
2019 "Re-Formation" The Bishop's Palace, Wells
2018, 19, 20 The George Farnham Gallery, Suffolk
2017 - 2021 The Russell Gallery, London SW15
