Rebecca Whitworth

R. A. Whitworth is an artist, illustrator and writer living near Bath, Somerset. Her paintings reflect her passion for the world around her, for the natural world and of course, colour. In her work she focusses on animals, predominantly wildlife, and landscapes, creating vivid depictions of her subjects with her signature pallete of colours, often in oil or acrylic.
The way she paints today stems from a life changing trip to South Africa in 2014 when, while studying animals and gaining conservation experience, she was so captured by the Africa's natural beauty she realised that a career in science didn’t call to her as much as the canvas. So her style today was forged by creating portraits of elephants from that very reserve.
Since turning professional, she has carved a career for herself in the art world, having exhibited her work in galleries such as in Bristol and in Frome, as well as online she has sold artwork all over the UK as well as Switzerland and across the Atlantic. She is a regular contestant on Art Battle Bristol, where competitors have 20 minutes to complete a painting to a live audience which then goes to auction and has always proved popular at each event, even reaching the finals in the last show.
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