Artist Statement

Rebecca is an artist and writer based in Manchester. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a 1st-class BA in Philosophy with Italian, and is currently studying for an MA in Painting at Manchester School of Art. 

Rebecca is investigating awareness and de-conditioning through a meditative painting practice. Her work opens up a different kind of discourse on painting rooted in embodied lived experience, beyond the limitations of conditioning by philosophies, theories, art criticism, and value-based judgements. Her work is inspired by Japanese philosophy, Taoism, the philosophy of Krishnamurti, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Rebecca’s work is created in a state of emptiness, led by embodied intuition. Rebecca's thinking centres on self-observation, awareness, and felt lived experience, rather than philosophical analysis or value-based judgements. Her paintings are created fast in an empty embodied state of play and experiment. Rebecca uses ink painting to explore the mind-body-spirit connection, and what happens in that state of ‘flow’ or no-mind where intuitive creation happens.

Rebecca is interested in understanding our own layers of conditioning and healing from trauma through ongoing self-observation, therapy, and meditation. Painting, for her, is a form of self-connection and a means of communicating the ineffable. By stripping back layers of conditioning through self-awareness, her work is an exploration of what happens when the self, and not the ego, is given freedom to be and to create.