Rebecca Tucker
Surrey
Rebecca Tucker, a Lancashire born/London based painter, with a BA in Fine Art 1996 and a recent alumni of the Turps Banana Art School.
MessageRebecca's paintings are the result of a visual ‘discussion’ between abstract and more representational methods of depicting subjects. Rebecca is keen to play with the viewers perception of subject and space in her paintings and then pull that preconceived idea back to the appreciation of what are essentially abstract marks on a two dimensional surface.
Recent notable successes include being selected for the RWA Open 2023, selection for the Society of Women Artists Open at the Mall Galleries 2023, selection for the Royal Watercolour Society Open 2023 at Bankside Gallery, selection for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, being selected for the 2022 and 2021 ING Discerning Eye exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, being shortlisted for the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2022, being longlisted in the 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize and featuring in Gita Joshi’s ‘Art Seen’ magazine, spring 2022.
Rebecca is represented by Wychwood Gallery, Mint Art Gallery and BobCat Gallery, and has been exhibited in group shows and at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea and Hampstead.
As an active member of ArtCan Org Rebecca has had pieces accepted into several curated physical and online exhibitions with the group and has co-curated ‘Legacy’ at The Crypt Gallery, Kings Cross in association with ArtCan Org, featuring over 80 artists in a show with over 100 pieces of work.
Statement
My consistent focus for several years has been to explore the breadth of the spectrum between representation and abstraction. Each series of work starts with a subject but progresses towards abstraction as I explore the subject and render it in two dimensions, examining line and shape, negative space and the effects of light. I start with the suggestion of something recognizable to a viewer and then I carefully try to reposition that perception by drawing the viewer in to see the beauty of paint or ink on a surface.
Working primarily with water-based materials allows the use of water itself as part of the process, working in layers and then fully or partially washing them away, taking advantage of the ‘happy accidents’ that occur, bringing an element of experimentation into every painting. I enjoy the use of adding a graphic line to create silhouettes, redacting negative space, playing with foreground/background, or focusing so closely on something that it becomes essentially abstract.
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