Rebecca Rath

I live on a vineyard in Australia. My work is constantly inspired by my ever changing landscape. In my painting practice I often paint in my backyard and in the Impressionist style of en plein air.

I feel there’s a connection between man and nature, present at all times yet often unseen. My purpose is to create an awareness of this connection. Unique in style, yet reminiscent of the works of Turner, Constable, and inspired by writers such as Shelley, Keats, and Muir, my aim is not just to show a ‘pretty picture’, but to create a specific experience in the viewer.

If my paintings are often dramatic or foreboding, just the way the sky looks before or during a storm, it’s because I wish for the viewer to experience that same intensity I see. I want the viewer to take a moment and reflect both on the minuteness of being human, as well as on the fact that being human is a marvelous and awe-inspiring reality.

I completed a Bachelor Fine Arts Honours, COFA UNSW and further education has included Northern Sydney Technical College and a mentor-ship. I have participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Hong Kong and USA.

2008-9 Mentorship with master-printmaker, James Whitington, Crown St Press
1999 Bachelor Fine Arts Honours, COFA, University of New South Wales
1998 Bachelor Fine Arts, COFA, University of New South Wales
1995 Associate Diploma Arts (Fine Arts) Northern Sydney Technical College

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
June 2016 " Various Storms and Saints" Galerie Belimage Switzerland
2015 "In Season", Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2014 'Are we there yet?", Manning Regional Art Gallery, Australia
'A Country Drive', Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Australia
2013‘Cockfighter Country’, Margan Family Wines, Hunter Valley
‘Road Trip’, Singleton Art Festival, Singleton Council, Hunter Valley
‘Rough Surface; the Scenic Route’, Gloucester Gallery, Gloucester, NSW
2012 ‘Rough Surface’, Old Fire Shed Gallery, Wollombi
2007
‘Australian Sienna’, Old Fire Shed Gallery, Wollombi NSW
2004 ‘Emergence’, Salmon Galleries, McMahon’s Point, Sydney NSW

1997 - 2016 various group exhibitions in Australia, USA, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Italy

Work included in private and public collections in Australia, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, U.K, U.S.A