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Rebecca Guyver
Rebecca Guyver
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I am an American painter printmaker, living in Suffolk, whose practice relies on drawings. I draw daily, translating the moment and emotion of my world in colourful sketches that fix time. I work in a variety of media with these drawings to produce a varied but cohesive exploration of light, colour, mood and time. I exhibit locally and internationally, have had work shown at the Mall Gallery, London, several times and will be included in an American book, in 2016, Art of Acadia, by Carl Little and David Little.

I grew up in New York City and as a child spent 3-4 months every year on Cranberry Island, off the coast of Maine, USA. My most vivid memories emanate from the island; my interior landscape is the mountains of Acadia, the water and our garden.

At the same time as I was looking at the landscape, I was also surrounded by artists who were inspired by and drew from the landscape. Cranberry attracted a renowned art community. These artists, John Heliker, Robert Lahotan, Dorothy Eisner, William Kienbusch, Louis Finkelstein, Henry Finkelstein and Gretna Campbell modeled what you do when you are in an inspiring place, how you use it to say something. The way I work now comes from this early exposure.

I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in studio art in painting and drawing. There I studied with painters from the California School who were predominately abstract expressionists. My aesthetic was challenged and enlivened by these figures: Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell and Keith Boyle. Over time I feel their influence. I taught art in schools in New York and studied informally with John Heliker, a New York painter who I knew from Maine.

In 1985 I joined the Peace Corps where I taught English and drew daily. In Kenya I made most of my drawings a few steps from my house. I learned to see the subtle changes in colour and light and to find surprises in the everyday. It was a very beautiful landscape that I grew to know intimately.

I�ve been in Suffolk for 15 years now and its particular light and sensibilities are making their way into my work, leaving an imprint on the things I notice and the way I see.

 
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