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Rebecca was diagnosed in August 2008 with a rare immune disease called Hypogammaglobulemia or CVID. Click on the picture at the left to learn more about this disease and how it impacts her.
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I have a need to create.
It's not just what
I do.
It's who I am.
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Rebecca knew as a child she was going to be an artist and never strayed very far from that path. Her earliest memories are of spending hours at a time sitting at a table with paper and crayons drawing every animal imaginable.
Taking drawing and sculpture classes all through school, Rebecca was fortunate to attend a high school that offered Commercial Art as an elective (thank you Mr. Norton). This altered her path from fine art to Graphic Design. She received a full academic scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she majored in Advertising Art gaining her BFA degree. She minored in fine art - taking photography, painting, printmaking and ceramics courses. She also took computer programming as an elective, unaware of how much this was going to help her years down the road when the World Wide Web came into the mainstream.
Rebecca has been working as a Commercial Artist for the last 20 years. Most recently for an in-house corporate agency as a Senior Graphic and Web Designer. She turned her attention back to fine art in 2003, though still works a full-time day job. Rebecca has worked in many media, but has settled on painting in acrylics to express herself. She hopes to find time for ceramics again some time in the future.
Rather than focusing on a specific subject matter, Rebecca relies on a high level of detail and a strong sense of light to tie her work together. Viewers often comment that they feel as if they could step into her paintings; as if the frame was a window to another world.
Rebecca lives in Granbury, Texas (near Fort Worth). Competing for her time and attention are her bevy of "children" including: dogs, cats and parrots, as well as an avid love of gardening-concentrating on xeric and/or native plants.
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Affiliations:
Signature Member NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society)
Signature Member "Daily Painters of Texas", Artists of Texas
CFAI (Contemporary Fine Arts International)
Acrylic Artists Association
LGAA (Lake Granbury Art Association)
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Recent accomplishments include:
2011 "Spirit of Texas Artist of Texas" Juried Show - 5 paintings accepted "Against the Stream", "Jack in January Snow", "Lemons", "Wednesday's Child", "Musical Interlude"
2011 LGAA Fall Festival of Art juried show Granbury, TX - Merit Award for "Blue Hydrangeas"; also accepted "Sky Waves"
2011 Rio Brazos National Juried Show - Winner of "Partners for Enrichment Society Kathy & Russell Smith Award." "Calm" (Acrylic painting) Granbury, TX
2011 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society "Best of America 2011 Juried Show * Bolivar Missouri - accepted "Late Lunch" (Acrylic painting) and awarded Signature Status
2011 Featured artist June Last Saturday Gallery Night at "Your Private Collection Gallery" and local cable TV appearance
2011 "Time to Eat" featured in article on Texas Artists in the April 2011 issue of "Western Art Collector Magazine" page 62
also in this issue "The Lawman" on page 26
2011 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society "Best of America 2011 Juried Show * Bolivar Missouri -accepted "Late Lunch" acrylic painting
2010 LGAA Fall Festival of Art juried show Granbury, TX - Inge Purchase Award for "Texas Spring"; also accepted "Against the Stream" and "Jack in January Snow"
2010 Rio Brazos National Juried Show -accepted "Tugboats on the Ohio" (Acrylic painting) Granbury, TX
2010 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society "Best of America 2010 Juried Show * Bolivar Missouri - Award of Excellence "Hydrangea Heaven"
2010 Breckenridge Fine Arts Center National Juried Show -accepted "The Lawman" (water-soluble oils painting)
2010 WAA Peach Festival Art Show, Weatherford, TX "Hydrangea Heaven" 1st place Oils/(and Acrylics)
2010, June- 3 week Solo Exhibit, Shanley House Gallery, Granbury, Texas
2010 LGAA Spring Show "Wednesday's Child" 3rd place in Acrylics Category
2010 Stars of Texas Juried Show, Brownwood, TX - People's Choice award for Venus' Tears & accepted: "Tugboats on the Ohio" and "Grasslands II"
2009 Featured in "Best of Worldwide Watermedia Artists Volume II" by Kennedy Publishing
2009 LGAA Fall Juried Show - accepted "Sea Oats" & "Prickly Pear Cactus Trio" (Acrylic Paintings) Granbury, TX
2009 Breckenridge Fine Arts Center National Juried Show -accepted "Hydrangea Heaven", "Egret" and "Wildflower Bouquet III" (Acrylic paintings)
2009 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society "Best of America 2009 Juried Show * Bolivar Missouri - accepted "The Old Power Plant - Granbury"
2009 Rio Brazos National Juried Show -accepted "Cholla Flowers" (Acrylic painting) Granbury, TX
2009, May - 5 week One-Woman Show, The Old Post Office Museum and Art Center * Graham, Texas
2009, April - 4 week Solo Exhibit, Granbury Convention and Visitor's Bureau
2009 Stars of Texas Juried Show, Brownwood, TX - accepted: "Grasslands II", "Hydrangea Heaven" and "Weathering the Storm" Acrylic Paintings
2008 Breckenridge Fine Arts Center National Juried Show - accepted "Grasslands", "Crystal Stargazer", "Silver and Brass" -Acrylic Paintings
2008 LGAA Spring Members Show - HM -"Musical Interlude" (Acrylic Painting)
2008 Art Splash National Juried Show - accepted -"Wildflower Bouquet II"- accepted "Silver & Brass" (Acrylic Paintings)
2008 Special Invitation to show at Barnard's Mill Art Museum "Art on the Paluxy" in Glen Rose, Texas
2007 Rio Brazos National Juried Show - accepted "White Roses" (Acrylic Painting)
2007 LGAA Open Fall Juried Show - HM "Looking to His Past" -accepted "Last Days" (Acrylic Paintings)
2007 Art Splash National Juried Show - HM Medal Winner -"The Morning Paper"- accepted "River Rocks" (Acrylic Paintings)
2007 The American Juried Art Salon -Award of Merit "Jar of Roses" & "Hands #5" (Acrylic Paintings)
2007 IAA Texas and Neighbors 5-state Juried Show- accepted "Red" (Acrylic Painting)
2006 Rio Brazos National Juried Show -accepted "Time to Eat" (Acrylic painting)
2006 Breckenridge Fine Arts Center National Juried Show -accepted "Wildflower Bouquet", "The Morning Paper" and "White Roses" (Acrylic paintings)
2006 LGAA Photography Show - 3rd - 'Cell Division' (Digital Photo)
2006 One Woman Show • Tarleton State's Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Education Center in Granbury, Texas • 308 East Pearl Street
2006 Art Splash National Juried Show - accepted -
'Hands by Candlelight' (Acrylic painting)
2005 LGAA Open Fall Show - 2nd in Canvas/Board-
'Wildflower Bouquet' (Acrylic painting)
2005 Rio Brazos National Juried Show - Juror's Merit Award - 'Jar of Roses' (Acrylic painting)
2005 LGAA Photography Show - Honorable Mention -
'Texas Textures' (Digital Photo)
2005 LGAA Spring Show - Best of Show - 'Hands #5'
(Acrylic painting)
2005 Art Splash National Juried Show - accepted -
'Eye of the Beholder' (Acrylic painting-nude)
2004 Rio Brazos National Juried Show - Juror's Merit Award -
'Eye of the Beholder' (Acrylic painting-nude)
2003 LGAA Open Fall Show - Honorable Mention in Works Under Glass- 'Koi' (Acrylic painting)
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