REBECCA BARNARD
ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION

Rebecca Barnard is an architectural abstract painter and colourist.  Her painting practice is shaped by a sustained engagement with architectural space, structure and the built environment.

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Drawing on her experiences travelling and a long-standing interest in Mediterranean and Renaissance architecture and painting, Barnard creates imagined structures and off-kilter spaces in which form, spatial tension and colour become the means of constructing a sense of place.  Her paintings explore the line between harmony and instability, bringing together a sense of order with more intuitive and unpredictable elements.

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Working primarily in oils, Barnard develops her paintings through a process of construction, revision and paring back. She is 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 this process, used to establish atmosphere, rhythm and emotional weight, as well as to shape the structure of the painting itself.​​

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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.