Rebecca’s work unites Abstract painting with Semi Landscapes. She uses a unique colorful palette to express nature. Dropping the horizon line makes a landscape abstract. Graduating from the Fashion Institute of technology NYC, she specialized in fashion illustration. Rebecca was a textile designer and fashion art director for 22 years in the city, where she began her love of color. Her art career gave her a love of color and a strong design component in her paintings. Fashion illustration gave her the background for the gestural and bold color palette for my landscapes and abstracts.
Rebecca lived in northern New Hampshire near the Mount Washington area for many years. The mountains gave her the nostalgia and the lyrical feeling for the landscapes.. All of these elements have produced these large, modern, unique fine art paintings. She now lives near Portsmouth, NH.
YOU CAN FIND ME IN THESE GALLERIES OR LOCATIIONS
Harvest Gold Lovell Maine
Art Center, my studio location, Dover NH
Private Studio space in Somersworth NH, Text for appointment
Jackson Studio, Art And Gallery, Jackson NH
One Dock Gallery, Rockport MA’
Kaya Jewelry 4 Market Square Portsmouth NH
Historical Art Society, Portsmouth, NH
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Love Letters for the Mountains
Emotive, Atmospheric, Vibrant, Lyrical, Poetic- The MIDPOINT
These works are of hiking in the foliage in Northern New England. What fascinates me is the Midpoint of a trek up the mountains. This midpoint is where you see the mountains open up. You see below and above. The bright colors I use are like comrades as they decorate our New England with their opulence. Here are the land of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, poets who loved the mountains best. Their poems have directed my titles.
These paintings are painted from the Mount Washington or Cadillac Mountain trails. When the sunshine hits the colored leaves, they produce high keyed color tones, you would not usually see in nature. The brilliant orange, fuchsia, lime and yellow are seen as highlights of the sun hitting the foliage. I shoot to create the nostalgia people have for the mountains,-these are the love letters. These large colorful paintings are done in acrylic. Fauvism and POP art have influenced my style. Abstract painting and Semi abstract paintings are a pinnacle expression of the love of nature.
One day, a client came to the great artist Henri Matisse, with the desire to buy one of the master’s works.
He tells Matisse that he wants to buy something, and Matisse pulls out a sheet of paper, and with a few deft strokes, creates one of his highly distinctive, masterful drawings. “Ah, beautiful!” says the customer. “How much?” Matisse names a price so high that the customer is shocked. “So much, for just a minute of drawing?” he protests. “A minute of drawing, a lifetime of practice,” answers Matisse.
I love this story—even though it probably is apocryphal—because it’s a good reminder that we can’t always measure value by time, labor, or visible effort.