EP 12 Rebecca Tucker : The Perception of Space within the abstraction of Landscape & a Mutual Love for Trees.
Today, on the Art Seeker Stories Podcast 12th Episode I invite Rebecca Tucker to her Artist Residency on Art Seeker Island, to create a concept for her exhibition 'The Shape of Hope.' Rebecca is a Lancashire born/London based painter, whose works are the result of a visual ‘discussion’ between abstract and more representational methods of depicting landscape and the natural world.
Using colour, texture, line and layers Rebecca is keen to play with the viewers perception of space in her artworks (and what would traditionally constitute a ‘landscape’) and then pull that preconceived idea back to the appreciation of what are essentially abstract marks on a two dimensional surface.
Rebecca studied Fine Art at Reading University in the 90's, now lives in Greater London and owns an Interior Design company in Wimbledon.
Rebecca Art Seeker Island takes us on a wonderful journey through photography , surrealism and an exploration in light where beams of colour create emotion and illusions of floating space. Her Island lives among the trees, it explores all seasons and all terrain, the grass may be greener elsewhere, but on Art Seeker Island, Rebecca has everything all at once.
The 3 artist artworks Rebecca takes with her for company on Art seeker Island are;
1. By a woman: Vivian Maier http://www.vivianmaier.com/ photographer
2. Of cultural significance: Rene Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'
3. Free choice: James Turrell (specifically his exhibition at the Hayward 1993) www.jamesturrell.com
Lufi’s Library Book Swap:
Borrowing: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchel
Swapping: Maddaddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
Including: Oryx And Crake, The Year of the Flood and Maddaddam
You can find more about Rebecca and her work here:
Website : www.rebeccatucker.co.uk
Instagram @rebeccatuckerpaintings @rebeccatuckerportraits
Interior Design: www.sunainteriordesign.com @sunainteriordesign
Rebecca is also a member of www.artcan.org.uk