REBECCA BARNARD
ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION
ABOUT
Rebecca Barnard’s painting practice is shaped by a sustained engagement with architectural space and structure.
Drawing on her travels and her long time interest in the built environment, she uses form, palette, and spatial tension as structural devices and as ways to translate emotion and memory. The resulting off-kilter cityscapes and imagined terrains present both a compositional conundrum and an emotional encounter, underpinning a distinctive painterly language.
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.
"Built structures often evoke memories and stories for me. They carry traces of the people and lives that have shaped them over time. I use them as a starting point in my paintings; structural forms that can be reworked and transformed through layers of emotional and pragmatic creative decision making, into imagined spaces and echoes of place."
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED RECENT SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2026 Society of Women Artists, London
2026 Hong Kong, Hampstead AAF
Marine House Gallery, Devon
2025 Singapore, Battersea and Hampstead AAF
Marine House Gallery, Devon
2025 Brownston Gallery, Devon
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, 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)
2023 "The Machinery has Started"
2022 "Catharsis" Heritage Courtyard
Gallery, Wells