ABOUT REBECCA
REBECCA MOSS GUYVER
I am an American painter-printmaker, painting mostly in Suffolk. My work is held in collections in Europe, America and Australia and is featured in The Art of Acadia by Carl and David Little
Longlist: Jackson's Painting Prize 2022 Shortlist: Holly Bush Painting Prize 2022 ArtCan member
EDUCATION
MA Education Anglia Ruskin, 2009 (distinction)
QTS Graduate Teacher Programme, 2004
BA Painting and Drawing, Stanford University,1982
AWARDS
New English Art Club Drawing Scholar 2017
Richard Stone Bronze Award, Colchester Art Society
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023
Royal Society British Artists, Mall Galleries, London, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
Art at the Park, Braxted Park, Essex, 2024
Society of Women Artists, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
Aldeburgh Gallery, 2023
Ensemble 2, Paris, 2022-23
Transparent as a Dragonfly, Bermondsey Project Space 2023
Arte Borgo, Rome(ArtCan), 2023
A2Arts, Bildeston, Suffolk (solo) 2022
Pond Gallery, Snape, Suffolk, 2023, 2022
WIA, auction collective, 2022
Figurative Art Now, (FBA) online, London, 2021
Assembly House Open, Norwich, 2023, 2021
Colne Gallery, Colchester Hospital, 2021
Firstsite, Essex, 2020, 2015
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, 2019
Heart of Suffolk, Suffolk, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017
Beecroft Gallery, Essex, 2019
Beyond Plastic, Minories, (solo show), Colchester, 2019
Inspired By Becker, Suffolk, 2019, 2016
Cocobelle, Suffolk, 2019
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, 2018
The Concept Art Space, London, 2017
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, 2017
Craftco, Southwold, 2017
The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London, 2017, 2002
Colchester Art Society, Minories, Essex, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
The Sentinel Gallery, Essex, 2016, 2015
Red Dot Miniprint, UK, 2020, 2017, 2016
Suffolk Open Studios, Suffolk, 2023, 2022, 2021,2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015,
Stowhealth, Suffolk, 2004, 2015 (solo show), 2016, 2002
Freudian Sheep Gallery, Suffolk, 2016, 2015
Artists of Cranberry Isles, Maine, USA, 2016, 2014, 1985
National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2002, 2003
Oxford Art Week, Oxfordshire, 1990
Maine Coast Gallery, Maine, USA, 1988
Gallery 52, Boston, USA, 1985
The Coffee House Gallery, Stanford, USA, 1981
CONTACT 07500 949369
rebecca@rebecaguyverart.com
About Rebecca
I work from life but believe what is inside the artist is filtered through what she is looking at. I am interested in language and the visual and how one can evoke the other. Meaning is central but for the most part when I paint still life, I assemble my objects considering their relationships (physical and colour) without conscious thought of meaning. In front of landscape I look for a motif that has potential.
Somewhere in the middle of a painting or drawing I try to make sense and understand my objects in their context. I aim to pin the meaning down by researching the objects, reading about colours, figuring out subconscious or aleatoric meaning. How I feel about what I am looking at is part of the outcome. As an optimist, the stories I find are joyful. Words often inspire me.
Sometimes what I am looking at isn’t exactly what it needs to be, so I remove, move, or repaint objects to make everything achieve the harmony I seek. In the end, for me, a painting is not finished until all aspects make sense, the meaning is clear, and any ambiguity is intentional.The best paintings evoke a memory or some universal feeling.
I like the counterintuitive nature of egg tempera. Although it can take days to paint a small piece, it dries quickly and can be ‘corrected’. I work from general to specific redrawing with pigment until everything is in the right place. I like that when I add white, egg tempera behaves like gouache. Most passages incorporate layers of glazes and alternate between abstract areas of colour, pattern and realistic motifs. Increasingly I feel that my work is about stories in colour.
I grew up in New York City. My mum is an artist/gardener/collector. Drawing the still life has been something I have always done . I get very excited when I put things together and the colour, pattern and form speak to each other. Then I can’t help but record it, sharing my joy in the everyday.
I have a degree in painting and drawing from Stanford University where I studied with some of the Bay Area painters. They taught me to forget everything I know each time I pick up a drawing tool or brush. I show locally, in America, and have shown repeatedly at the Mall Galleries’ open exhibitions. In 2017, as NEAC Drawing Scholar, I learned the technique of egg tempera with Ruth Stage (NEAC) and Mick Kirkbride., I love the quality of light it creates..
You can find my work at icanvas
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