Rebecca Bramwell studied at St Martins School of Art in the 1980’s. She currently lives and works in Chester in the northwest of England.

Working mainly in drawing and painting, her work is an exploration of flux, both material and metaphysical.

As a child I loved the diagrams in science text-books, the underlying patterns of life, described and delineated.

Magnetic fields, bee-dances and bird migration; feathers, atoms and cells. Copying in my exercise books, I was immersed in a world beyond the surface of everyday 'reality'.

Later, in the writings of Blake, Hesse and Rilke, punk rock and alchemical illustrations I found experiences that resonated with mine.

I still keep notebooks. Drawing is a conversation with myself, a way to work-stuff-out.

My artworks could be described as 'diagrams of the subconscious'. Akin, though not deliberately, to theosophical 'Thought Forms'.
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‘Art is a fruit that grows in man like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother's womb’. Jean Arp

 

October 2020 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

September 2020 John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool UK - shortlist

August 2020 Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize, London

April 2020 Derwent Prize -

March 2020 International Postcard Show Surface Gallery, Nottingham

October 2019 Thoughtforms Solo pop-up show. Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent

March 2019 Lumen: The Cosmic Sublime The Pie Factory, Margate, Kent

November 2018 The Line Project Miami US

June 2018 Hythe Artists Annual Exhibition Invited artist. Hythe, Kent


St Martin's School of Art, BA Fine Art (painting) 1980-83

Grew up in Chester

Born 1961, Newcastle, England.

Work in private collections: Europe, US and UK.
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