Rebecca Harper Figurative Paintings

Rebecca Harper is a British contemporary artist and painter, born in 1989, in London, England. She has studied at UWE Bristol, The Royal Drawing School and the Turps Art School. She is interested in how we interact with the world around us, specifically connected to the ideas of displacement and alienation and the subjects of her recent paintings are situated in what she describes as middling space, such as camping, tree climbing or mid-road trip. Although visually referencing the aesthetic of the classic British holiday snapshot, the initial wistfulness found in these scenes is disrupted by the precarious or temporary nature of the situations and settings.

Rebecca’s large-scale and lyrical paintings are rooted in a practise of drawing intensely from life. She interweaves these drawings from life with reconstructed scenes from memories, along with other mediated and second-hand imagery. Balancing both the particular and the universal, she seamlessly combines these many sources to produce plausible and richly detailed scenes, which often feel dreamlike in their vivid and expressionistic color palettes. Her work has been exhibited in a number of group shows, including at Christie’s London and New York and “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018”. She has been awarded The Michael Moritz Residency Tuscany, the Modi Institute of Fine Art, India and the ACS (Artist Collecting Society) Studio Prize, 2018.