About Rebecca

Rebecca Campbell’s delightful, enigmatic and highly imaginative paintings evoke a world of plants and animals that appear to be happily confined within the boundaries of their own contented universe. Add a vivid sense of design that instantly captures the eye and you have paintings that project immense appeal.

She was born in Stamford and grew up in Ireland where as a child she was surrounded by gardens and animals, helped by the fact her mother was a keen gardener. But it was her three months in India that fired her imagination, in particular for Mughal miniatures with their rich earth colours and bold designs. This influence remains the bedrock of much of her work.

In 1991 she started a business producing hand painted furniture and murals, for which she found a ready market, but she felt it too restrictive for her artistic talents and turned her attention to full time painting, though she undertakes commissions for murals. In 2002 she held her first solo London exhibition at the Park Walk Gallery followed by a second in 2004 with the delightful title, The Enchanted Garden. Her next solo show was in Burford, Oxfordshire, all these exhibitions were very successful and established her reputation as a main stream player in the field of decorative arts.

Brian Sinfield 2005

Since this was written Rebecca has now had several solo shows including one in America at the Chelsea Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California. She was also invited by the Chairman of the English Nation Opera to take part in Discerning Eye Exhbiition at the Mall Galleries where she won the Discerning Eye Purchase Prize. This year will include two solo shows, one with Jonathan Cooper in June and then one in Mexico City in December with the Subastas Gallery.

Recent press
Palo Alto The Weekly Weekend

Curriculum Vitae

EXHIBITIONS
2008 Solo Show, Subastas Galerias, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 Solo Show, Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
2007 Solo Show, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Oxfordshire
2007 BADA, London
2006 Art London
2006 Solo Show, Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
2006 Byard Art, Cambridge
2005 Solo Show, Chelsea Gallery, Palo Alto, San Franciso
2005 Byard Art, Cambridge
2005 Solo Show, Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Oxfordshire
2004 Solo Show, Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
2004 Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
2002 Solo Show, Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
2001 Rutherford Centre, Institute of Physics, London
2000 Art For Youth, Mall Galleries, London

AWARDS
2005 Discerning Eye - Chairmans's Purchaser Prize

COMMERCIAL COMMISSIONS include:
Art Group
Boots
Canns Down Press
Collier and Dobson
Contrast Gallery, Hong Kong
Henry Bendells, New York
McKinsey & Co, London
Museums and Galleries Publishing
Paperchase, London
Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York
Shellys Shoes, London
Sheraton Hotel, Ethiopia
St George’s Hospital, Essex
Stewo, Switzerland
W. H. Smith
Woodmansterne Publishing

PRIVATE COMMISSIONS include:
Paintings, murals, panels, hand-painted furniture and design work.

BOOKS
Decorative Frames by Juliet Bawden
Murals, Tromp l’oeil and Decorative by Lynette Wigley

MAGAZINES
Artist and Illustrator Magazine
Country Life
De Tuin Exclusief, Holland
Harpers and Queen
Homes and Gardens
Kitchens, Bedrooms and Bathrooms
Palo Alto Weekly
The Field
The Lady
The Oxford Times
The Spectator
The Week
Southwest Magazine, London
The Sunday Telegraph
V & A Magazine

EDUCATION
City and Guilds of London Art School, London
1984 - 1987 Illustrative Arts, 1st Class Honours