REBECCA BARNARD
ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION
ABOUT
Rebecca Barnard’s painting practice is shaped by a sustained engagement with architectural space, structure, and rhythm. Her work explores off-kilter cityscapes and imagined terrains, informed by influences ranging from Renaissance explorations to contemporary design, as well as built environments encountered across different places and cultures. Through these references, she considers how constructed spaces can carry emotional and psychological charge.
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Barnard uses form, colour, and spatial tension not only as structural devices but as carriers of mood and memory. Architectural forms are reduced, shifted, and rebalanced, dissolving the boundary between place and emotion. Developed through an intuitive process of construction and revision, the paintings present both a compositional conundrum and an emotional encounter, underpinning a distinctive painterly language.
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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.
SELECTION OF RECENT EXHIBITIONS
RECENT SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 (forthcoming) Hong Kong, Hampstead AAF
Marine House Gallery, Devon
2025 Singapore, Battersea and Hampstead AAF with
Marine House Gallery, Devon​
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, 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
2025 Marine House Gallery, Devon
(2 person)
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2023 "The Machinery has Started"
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2022 "Catharsis" Heritage Courtyard
Gallery, Wells
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