Rebecca’s work unites Abstract painting with Semi Landscapes. She uses a unique colorful palette to express nature. Dropping the horizon line makes a landscape abstract. Graduating from the Fashion Institute of technology NYC, she specialized in fashion illustration. Rebecca was a textile designer and fashion art director for 22 years in the city, where she began her love of color. Her art career gave her a love of color and a strong design component in her paintings. Fashion illustration gave her the background for the gestural and bold color palette for my landscapes and abstracts.

Rebecca lived in northern New Hampshire near the Mount Washington area for many years. The mountains gave her the nostalgia and the lyrical feeling for the landscapes.. All of these elements have produced these large, modern, unique fine art paintings. She now lives near Portsmouth, NH.

YOU CAN FIND ME IN THESE GALLERIES OR LOCATIIONS

Harvest Gold Lovell Maine

Art Center, my studio location, Dover NH

Private Studio space in Somersworth NH, Text for appointment

Jackson Studio, Art And Gallery, Jackson NH

One Dock Gallery, Rockport MA’

Maha Yoga, Dover NH

Kaya Jewelry 4 Market Square Portsmouth NH

Historical Art Society, Portsmouth, NH

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Love Letters for the Mountains

Emotive, Atmospheric, Vibrant, Lyrical, Poetic- The MIDPOINT

These works are of hiking in the foliage in Northern New England. What fascinates me is the Midpoint of a trek up the mountains. This midpoint is where you see the mountains open up. You see below and above. The bright colors I use are like comrades as they decorate our New England with their opulence. Here are the land of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, poets who loved the mountains best. Their poems have directed my titles.

These paintings are painted from the Mount Washington or Cadillac Mountain trails. When the sunshine hits the colored leaves, they produce high keyed color tones, you would not usually see in nature.  The brilliant orange, fuchsia, lime and yellow are seen as highlights of the sun hitting the foliage. I shoot to create the nostalgia people have for the mountains,-these are the love letters. These large colorful paintings are done in acrylic. Fauvism and POP art have influenced my style. Abstract painting and Semi abstract paintings are a pinnacle expression of the love of nature.


Birch Trees are one of my specialties. They are fanatically expressive!

Tina Rawson-”She's a wonderful artist! Vibrant and expressive art that completes a room.”

Micah Douchette-“Rebecca is a talented artist making work inspired by the New England area !! Grateful to have the opportunity to support her and her magical creations.”

Collen Simpson-“I am so fortunate to have known Rebecca since she was a young girl and have watched her grow into a extremely talented woman, her art brings joy and her passion shows in every piece. i am fortunate to have two of her paintings in my home. Her way with colors in her work makes me happy!
Thank you Becky for sharing your gift with all of us!”

Mary Cocker-”Rebecca and I have been friends for 20 years, As fellow painters it has been a joy to know her. She has inspired me and supported me through my thin times in the creative process. Her attunement and impressions of the painting process and the love of painting has been constant in how prolific she has been with her work. I love the paintings I have of hers and watching the growth and evolution of her works over all these years.”

Rebecca uses a Provisional way of painting landscapes. Provisional painting emphasizes the process of painting over the final product. This modern way of painting  is  often characterized by their use of loose brushwork, unfinished forms, and an usual palette of colors.  The experimental process of painting involves mark making, applying glazes, and the use of impasto.

Why Rebecca uses Provisional painting is to show a sense of openness and ambiguity that invites the viewer to participate in the creation of meaning. It can also be seen as a reflection of the artist's relationship to the natural world. Rebecca says, "The landscape here is too wild to use traditional form of painting. I want to show the inconsistent weather and unusual color, for me this can be done through a raw Provisional way of painting. When you are painting a mountain such as Mount Washington, which clocks wind at 231 mph, you need some muscle in the way of painting.”



modern Tall Ships

These tall ship paintings are dedicated to the women of Portsmouth between the 17th and 18th century. There is not much known about them, just bits from written information as marriage licenses and baptismal records. We do know that this woman Gerrish was sailing with her husband. Sometimes the captain would take his family with him during the voyages.

What to me was the most fantastical story that I had read was that women with their children sometimes they were on the ship with strap themselves to the mass below when there was a huge storm so that they wouldn’t get swept off to the ocean. This really keeps my life in perspective when I think of some of the stores that seafaring women went through.

Colonial Settlements

This painting of Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth is illuminating. With the use of the Provisional painting style the process of painting over many layers makes an energetic painting. This modern way of painting  is  often characterized by their use of loose brushwork, unfinished forms, and an usual palette of colors.  The experimental process of painting involves mark making, applying glazes, and the use of impasto.

Rebecca uses Provisional painting is to show a sense of openness and ambiguity that invites the viewer to participate in the creation of meaning. It can also be seen as a reflection of the artist's relationship to the natural world. Rebecca says, "The Colonial way of life was raw and wild, I want to show that in this series. The unpredictable life in early America to me is shown with Provisional style painting. Our forefathers were fighting for survival, and untamed pencil sketching and bold color chunks help express that.


One day, a client came to the great artist Henri Matisse, with the desire to buy one of the master’s works.

He tells Matisse that he wants to buy something, and Matisse pulls out a sheet of paper, and with a few deft strokes, creates one of his highly distinctive, masterful drawings. “Ah, beautiful!” says the customer. “How much?” Matisse names a price  so high that the customer is shocked. “So much, for just a minute of drawing?” he protests. “A minute of drawing, a lifetime of practice,” answers Matisse.

I love this story—even though it probably is apocryphal—because it’s a good reminder that we can’t always measure value by time, labor, or visible effort.