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