Rebecca grew up in Yorkshire where she attended Bradford College of Art before embarking on a Fine Art Degree at Falmouth College Cornwall. The wild Atlantic coastline of childhood holidays on the Isle Arran along with a mixture of memories of the rugged and un-spoilt North Yorkshire moors paved the way to her love of the un-tamed landscape. 

Rebecca now works from her home studio on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides where the islands unique geology and dramatic vistas are a constant source of inspiration.  Her paintings evoke a sense of the elemental and energetic whilst capturing the essence of human nature in it’s raw and poetic state , She says of her practice .. 

‘My art practice has evolved to become a love letter to both myself and my surroundings. Constantly adapting and evolving.The landscape endlessly braves the onslaught. Surviving and sustaining in order to renew. Nothing wasted , just re-invented.

The delicate balance between vulnerability and strength, inspires my working. My engagement with paint is born of an emotional response to a situation, a memory , a place or time .I choose to represent this by placing us as viewers within the wilderness of the natural landscape. '

My work speaks of the visual appeal of an honest , natural aesthetic and encourages us to re-think our dependance on the high paced and habitual convenience of the modern synthetic . 

Rebecca styles Artist cv 

Education

2000-2001 Bradford

College ND Foundation Art studies

2001-2002 Falmouth

College BA Fine Art 

2002-2005 Somerset

College HND Theatrical and Media Make-up

Exhibitions

2021 Little Buckland Gallery , Broadway , mixed exhibition 

2021 The Jetty gallery , Oban , summer exhibition 

2021 Coast Gallery Dunbar , mixed exhibition

2021 Broadway arts festival finalist exhibition , Cotswolds , England 

2021 An Talla Solais , Ullapool , members exhibition 

2021 Grinneabhat , Braggar , Isle of Lewis, mixed exhibition

2021 Moy Mackay Gallery Peebles mixed exhibition

2020 Hulabaigh re-imagined Uig Summer exhibition

2020 Paisley Art Institute Annual exhibition

2020 Aberdeen Arts society Annual exhibition

2020 Creative Flow Edinburgh , Nature is you

2020 Talla na Mara , Harris , Island just giving

2017 Goth , Solo

exhibition , Picfair , Whitby , North Yorkshire

2016 Martin Jones

Annual Exhibition , Frampton on Severn , Glouc

2015 Procession,

Center for Science and Art Stroud Gloucestershire

Memberships 

Elected Artist member of Paisley Art Institute

Associate member of Visual Arts Scotland 

Artist member of SSA

Awards and Prizes 

2021 Broadway Arts festival exhibition finalist 

2021 VACMA award Scotland 

2019 OHYESS

start-up grant awarded by Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar

2019 Accepted onto

An Lanntair professional Arts mentoring program

Press

Sidmouth Herald

Stornoway gazette 

https://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/news/people/artist-rebecca-styles-finding-lewis-inspirational-tour-islands-2981133

Stroud News and

Journal

Devon Life

magazine