REBECCA BARNARD
ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION
ABOUT
Rebecca Barnard’s painting practice is shaped by a sustained engagement with architectural space and structure.
Drawing on her travels and her long time interest in the built environment, she uses form, palette, and spatial tension as structural devices and as carriers of emotion and embedded memory. Her off-kilter cityscapes and imagined terrains present both a compositional conundrum and an emotional encounter, underpinning a distinctive painterly language.
Barnard lives and works in the West Country. She completed an MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Falmouth School of Art in 2023 and has exhibited in selected solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad.
“Built structures fascinate me as repositories of memory, history, and human presence. They reveal the ways people have lived, gathered, worshipped, worked, and endured across generations. They are mirrors of us through time.”
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED RECENT SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2026 Society of Women Artists, London
2026 Hong Kong, Hampstead AAF
Marine House Gallery, Devon
2025 Singapore, Battersea and Hampstead AAF
Marine House Gallery, Devon
2025 Brownston Gallery, Devon
2025, 20, 19, 18 The George Farnham Gallery, Suffolk
2024, 23, 22, 21, 19 Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2024, 20 The Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries
2024 South West Academy
(Winner, Brownston Prize 2024)
2024 The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2023 The Loft Gallery, Heritage Courtyard, Wells
2022, 21 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2022 The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives
2021 - 2001 Cambridge Contemporary Art
2021 - 2016 The Russell Gallery, London
2019 "Re-Formation" The Bishop's Palace, Wells
2025 Marine House Gallery, Devon
(2 person)
2023 "The Machinery has Started"
2022 "Catharsis" Heritage Courtyard
Gallery, Wells