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 which 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 precedence.  ​​​​​​​

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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.