REBECCA BARNARD
ABSTRACT PAINTING
ABOUT
Rebecca Barnard’s painting practice is informed by a sustained engagement with architectural space, structure, and rhythm. Her work explores off-kilter cityscapes and imagined terrains, drawing on a love of Mediterranean and classical forms to examine how built environments can hold emotional and psychological charge.
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Barnard uses form, colour, and spatial tension not only as structural tools but as carriers of mood, memory, and meaning. Architectural elements are reduced, shifted, and re-weighted, blurring the line between place and feeling. This process-driven approach produces paintings that 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 group and solo exhibitions in the UK and abroad.
RECENT SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
SELECTION OF RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Marine House Gallery, Devon
(2 person)
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2023 "The Machinery has Started"
The Loft Gallery, Wells
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2022 "Catharsis" Heritage Courtyard
Gallery, Wells
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2026 (forthcoming) Hong Kong, Battersea, Hampstead and Singapore 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, 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