Art on a Postcard x St Wilfrid's Hospice: The Postcards

About

Rebecca Tucker, b. 1973, lives in Greater London and owns an Interior Design company in Wimbledon. She is a Lancashire born/London based painter, with a BA in Fine Art from Reading University 1996 and is currently studying with the Turps Banana Art School on their Off-Site Programme. Her paintings are the result of a visual ‘discussion’ between abstract and more representational methods of depicting subjects. Tucker is keen to play with the viewers perception of emotion, mood, subject and space in her paintings and then pull that preconceived idea back to the appreciation of what are essentially abstract marks on a two-dimensional surface.

Education

1992 - 1996 BA Fine Art and History of Art, University of Reading, UK 2022 - 2023 Turps Banana Off Site Programme

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Recent notable successes include being selected for the Society of Women Artists Open at the Mall Galleries 2023, selection for the Royal Watercolour Society Open 2023 at Bankside Gallery, selection for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, being selected for the 2022 and 2021 ING Discerning Eye exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, being shortlisted for the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2022, and being longlisted in the 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize.

Gallery Representation

Wychwood Gallery, BobCat Gallery, Mint Art Gallery

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Rebecca Tucker’s works are the result of a visual ‘discussion’ between abstract and more representational methods of depicting subjects. Working with negative space and what is ‘left out’ as much as what is there, Tucker enjoys utilising the innate ability of the human brain to fill in the gaps and find something physically and emotively recognisable in what are essentially abstract marks on a two-dimensional surface. These marks are imbued with the power to suggest fabric, the fall of light, a body, an object, a subject, and evoke a memory, an emotion or summon something familiar to our minds. Tucker’s use of materials and processes is constantly evolving. For these pieces, diluted ink and carbon paper drawn lines, washes of ink and the use of the crisp white negative space of paper allows for a variety of marks and an essentially experimental approach to flourish.

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