Rebecca Harper, Take my head to your breast, my banished prayers to your nest, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 51cm.
Rebecca Harper’s figurative images are rooted in drawing from observation whether it be from life, borrowed source material, or old photographs found in her family archive. Her subjects and their surroundings take on a dreamlike quality through Rebecca’s distinctive glowing palette and use of translucent layering. The resulting pictures are inhabited by characters that appear both languid and restless; seemingly stopped in time, like snapshots of memories.
This painting on canvas is one of four new unique works that are part of our June 2024 group exhibition and online collection ‘Almost Blue’. It focuses in detail on one of the artist’s selkie women who - in her words - ‘stand as both a familiar shadow of selfhood and of protectress.’ Water - whether rivers, seas or the creatures who inhabit them - has been a strong theme running through much of the artist’s imagery. It represents ‘a place of belonging and displacement, symbolising both home and a conduit for connection, reflecting the interconnectedness of life, memory, migration, and spirituality.’
Rebecca studied at the Royal Drawing School, London, followed by the Turps Banana Art School, London. She has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition at the South London Gallery in 2018. Anima Mundi Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall, presented a a solo exhibition of her work, ‘The Waters of Dwelling’ in September 2021. Her paintings were also shown by Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, in 2019. Most recently, Rebecca was selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize in 2021. Rebecca’s studio is in Deptford, south east London.
Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 51cm.
Rebecca Harper’s figurative images are rooted in drawing from observation whether it be from life, borrowed source material, or old photographs found in her family archive. Her subjects and their surroundings take on a dreamlike quality through Rebecca’s distinctive glowing palette and use of translucent layering. The resulting pictures are inhabited by characters that appear both languid and restless; seemingly stopped in time, like snapshots of memories.
This painting on canvas is one of four new unique works that are part of our June 2024 group exhibition and online collection ‘Almost Blue’. It focuses in detail on one of the artist’s selkie women who - in her words - ‘stand as both a familiar shadow of selfhood and of protectress.’ Water - whether rivers, seas or the creatures who inhabit them - has been a strong theme running through much of the artist’s imagery. It represents ‘a place of belonging and displacement, symbolising both home and a conduit for connection, reflecting the interconnectedness of life, memory, migration, and spirituality.’
Rebecca studied at the Royal Drawing School, London, followed by the Turps Banana Art School, London. She has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition at the South London Gallery in 2018. Anima Mundi Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall, presented a a solo exhibition of her work, ‘The Waters of Dwelling’ in September 2021. Her paintings were also shown by Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, in 2019. Most recently, Rebecca was selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize in 2021. Rebecca’s studio is in Deptford, south east London.
Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 51cm.
Rebecca Harper’s figurative images are rooted in drawing from observation whether it be from life, borrowed source material, or old photographs found in her family archive. Her subjects and their surroundings take on a dreamlike quality through Rebecca’s distinctive glowing palette and use of translucent layering. The resulting pictures are inhabited by characters that appear both languid and restless; seemingly stopped in time, like snapshots of memories.
This painting on canvas is one of four new unique works that are part of our June 2024 group exhibition and online collection ‘Almost Blue’. It focuses in detail on one of the artist’s selkie women who - in her words - ‘stand as both a familiar shadow of selfhood and of protectress.’ Water - whether rivers, seas or the creatures who inhabit them - has been a strong theme running through much of the artist’s imagery. It represents ‘a place of belonging and displacement, symbolising both home and a conduit for connection, reflecting the interconnectedness of life, memory, migration, and spirituality.’
Rebecca studied at the Royal Drawing School, London, followed by the Turps Banana Art School, London. She has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition at the South London Gallery in 2018. Anima Mundi Gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall, presented a a solo exhibition of her work, ‘The Waters of Dwelling’ in September 2021. Her paintings were also shown by Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, in 2019. Most recently, Rebecca was selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize in 2021. Rebecca’s studio is in Deptford, south east London.
