Rebecca Chamberlain

Artist’s statement:
Above all, art is a never-ending process in which you learn something valuable with every creation that you bring forth. My first love has always been drawing. A pencil or pen is so pure and honest. There is an immediacy there that captivates me and satisfies me unlike any other art form. In the words of Camille Pissarro, “It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in it’s true character.”

Rebecca Chamberlain’s career as a fine artist and private art instructor began in 1995. She has taught workshops and classes in private studios, museums, libraries, arts organizations and educational cooperatives in Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia. With a deep appreciation for Italian Renaissance, Symbolist, and Pre-Raphaelite art, her work is inspired by artists from these movements. She is also inspired by art from the Golden Age of Illustration, Botanical Studies, and Contemporary Realism. Rebecca’s subjects are primarily portraiture, figurative, and still life. She works in graphite, charcoal, Faber-Castell polychromos colored pencils, ink and oil. Her original works can be found in private collecti...

• Dorian Moe Atelier
June 1,1989- August1,1989-Summer intensive in oil painting with Artist Dorian Moe Atelier- Artworks Studio Pikeville, Kentucky.
• University of Kentucky
(Major Art History and Art Studio)
1990-1991- Prestonsburg Community College
1991-1992- University of Kentucky College
Majors in Art History and Art Studio
• Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA
Jan 2008- May 2010- Mansfield University
BA earned in Art History with a minor in History.
• National Gallery of Art
2013 (March 16)- National Gallery of Art Teacher Workshops, Washington DC. The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde- Millais’ Ophelia in Focus- Curriculum Connections: Art and Literature for High School Students.
• Studio Paradiso
Seattle, WA
2020(November 12-15) David Gray Portrait Painting Workshop.
• The Florence Studio
2021 (October 15-21) Oil Painting Intensive with Laura Thompson- Florence, Italy

• Open Studio Students Exhibition Dorian Moe Atelier- Pikeville, Kentucky June, 1989.
• Art Studio 1 Exhibition- Prestonsburg College Art Gallery, 1990.
• Art Studio 2 Exhibition- Prestonsburg College Art Gallery, 1991.
• Drawn on Common Ground- Group exhibition - November 2008-December 2008. Clark County Public Library.
• Creative Harvest Festival- Group exhibition - October 2009-December, 2009. Hopewell Museum- Paris, Kentucky.
• Drawn from Words (Illustrations inspired by literature, poetry and song) - November 2009- December 2009, Clark County Public Library- Winchester, Kentucky.
• Bluegrass Drawing Society at the Opera House – January-February 2010 (group exhibit) Winchester Opera House, Winchester, Kentucky.
• Gallery Hop- Bluegrass Drawing Society April 16, 2010 (group exhibit) Bodley-Bullock House, Lexington, Kentucky.
• Ancient Musings (solo exhibit) - May-June 2010- A collection of drawings and illustrations from Rebecca Chamberlain. Winchester Opera House Gallery- Winchester, KY.
• Ethereal Images and Spiritual Iconography (group exhibit) – July1- July 29, 2010 Winchester Opera House.
• Paris Art Walk (Paris, Kentucky) Dual Exhibition with Artist Bill Berryman, 2011.
• Bluegrass Drawing Society Exhibition and Galler...