REBECCA BARNARD
ABSTRACT PAINTING
ABOUT
Rebecca Barnard lives in Somerset, and her practice centres on intuitive, oil-based abstract painting. She is drawn to the fragile threshold where order and disorder converge. Her work moves between subtle evocations of place and pure abstraction, where emotional and practical decisions around palette, colour, form, and mark-making take centre stage. Colour serves not only as a structural element but also as a carrier of mood, memory, and meaning.
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Rebecca holds an MA in Fine Art with Distinction 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 prestigious galleries across London, Cambridge, Aldeburgh, and Broadway. Her paintings are held in private collections worldwide, and she is regularly selected to exhibit in a range of open exhibitions, including the Royal West of England Academy, the Society of Women Artists, and the Bath Society of Artists.
“Rather than adhering to a predetermined structure, my work emerges organically. There is an interplay between intention and spontaneity, making the outcome teeter between balance and chaos, harmony and disharmony."
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
SELECTION OF MIXED EXHIBITIONS
2023 "The Machinery has Started"
The Loft Gallery, Wells
2022 "Catharsis" Heritage Courtyard
Gallery, Wells
2014 Cambridge Contemporary Art
(Two Person)
2011 Langton Street Gallery, Chelsea
2010 Cambridge Contemporary Art
2007 Cambridge Contemporary Art
2025 (Nov) Marine House, Gallery, Devon - 3 man show
2025 (Sept) Marine House Gallery, Devon​ (Singapore AAF)
2025 Marine House Gallery, (Battersea, Hampstead AAF)
2025 Brownston Gallery, Devon (SWAc exhibition)
2025, 20, 19, 18 The George Farnham Gallery, Suffolk
2024, 23, 22, 21, 19 Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2024, 21, 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, RWA 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
2016 The Mall Galleries
Shortlisted Artist -
A&I Artist of the Year
2016 - present Heritage Courtyard Gallery
2009 Sadler Street Gallery, Wells
2009 & 2008 Mall Galleries (Art for Youth)
2008 to 2012 Broadway Modern, Broadway
2007 to 2012 Thompson's Gallery, Aldeburgh
2006 - 2005 Lacy Road Gallery, London
2003 Enid Lawson Gallery, London
2000 Artmonsky Arts, London
2000 Wills Art Warehouse, London