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Rebecca Cains
About
Rebecca Cains was selected to train as a dancer at The Arts Educational Schools, London in 1985, where she studied ballet, contemporary, Jazz, tap, choreography, singing, drama and art. After graduating in 1988, she embarked on a professional dance career working and touring in both the UK and Europe. Some of her dance work includes contemporary company Dancers Anonymous, performing at both the Edinburgh festival and in Germany and dancing for leading U.K. choreographer Pat Dennison. Her last engagement was a tour of Italy, dancing for leading Italian choreographer Gino Landi in Cole Porters musical Can Can. During this time she began to paint again and studied the masters at first hand. A knee injury led to a change in career and she concentrated on painting which had always been of parallel interest to her dancing. She then went on to study for a degree in Fine Art Painting at Bath Spa University.I am a representational artist and my paintings capture the less fashionable areas of towns and cities where I grew up and have revisited with renewed vision. They are places in a state of decay, often unnoticed but part of our everyday lives. Much of my work has been based at a local scrap yard where I am visually interested in the haphazard shapes, textures and colours of decayed vehicles stacked together like forms of sculpture. My paintings are devoid of people with the wrecked vehicles taking on a personality of their own. They depict todays throwaway society and are heightened by the urban environment juxtaposed against a rural landscape. My paintings are of the here and now and can be located in time due to the depicted material and deterioration of the objects. They are undocumented areas capturing todays society which in the future will change or be lost forever.I paint in oils using a limited palette to capture the subtlety and subdued colour of my chosen subject matter. … Read More
- Location
- Bristol, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.rebeccacains.co.uk
Elected Royal West of England Academician 2012
Open Exhibitions:
2013 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London.
The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2012 Bath Society of Artists 107th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Royal West of England Academy, 160th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol.
The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011 Picadilly, london W1 7 June- 15 August
New English art club annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Royal West of England Academy 159 Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
Open Exhibitions 2010
Royal West of England Academy 158 Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters Hall, London EC4. Awarded runner up
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1.
Royal West of England Academy, Open Painting Exhibition 2010, Bristol. Awarded 1st odin prize
2009
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters Hall, London EC4
The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
Royal West of England Academy, 157th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol.
Bath Society Of Artists,104th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Shortlisted, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts,London.
Atkinson Gallery, Millfield. 21stSummer Show, Street, Somerset
2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Bath Society of Artists, 103rd Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, 20th Summer Show, Street, Somerset.
Royal West of England Academy, 156th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol.
2007
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 120th Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries,London.
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters Hall, London.
Royal West of England Academy, 155th Autumn Exhibition,Bristol.
Awards
2008 Best Regional Artist at the 156th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2009 Andrew Brownsword Prize for an oil painting, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
2010 Odin 1st Prize at the Open Painting Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy,Bristol
2010 Awarded runner up at the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize exhibition.
Exhibitions
2010
W.H Patterson Gallery, 19, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BB
The Tenth Annual Free Range Art and Design Show, The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
2009 The CREATE Centre Gallery, Bristol,
Interviews
The culture Show BBC2 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2008 … Read More
BA (Hons) fine art painting 2007-2010 Bath Spa University
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Exhibitions
2013 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London.
The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2012 Bath Society of Artists 107th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Royal West of England Academy, 160th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol.
The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2011 The New English Art Club, Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London. Royal West of England 159th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Cork Street Open Exhibition, Cork Street, London (shortlisted). Art Paris, Saatchi Gallery, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France. Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Atkinson Gallery, Millfield Summer Show 2011, Somerset. 2010 Royal West of England Academy, 158th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol. Royal West of England Academy Open Painting Exhibition, Bristol. Bath Society of Artists, 105th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters Hall, London (Prize Winner: Runner up). The New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2009 The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters Hall, London The New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London. Royal West of England Academy, 157th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol. Bath Society Of Artists, 104th Annual Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of arts, London shortlisted. Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, 21stSummer Show, Street, Somerset. Bath and West Show, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. 2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Royal West of England Academy, 156th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol. Atkinson gallery,Millfield, 21st Summer Show. Bath Society of Artists, 103rd Annual Exhibition. 2007 Royal Institute of Oil Painters,120th Annual Exhibition,Mall Galleries, London. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painter’s Hall, London. Royal West of England Academy, 155th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol. Awards 2010, Runner up, The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, London. 2010 Ist Odin Prize, The Royal West of England Open Painting Exhibition, Bristol. 2009 Andrew Brownsword Prize for an oil painting, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. 2008 Best Regional Artist, Royal West of England Academy, 156th Autumn Exhibition, Bristol Exhibitions 2010 W.H Patterson Gallery 19, Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BB 2010 The Tenth Annual Free Range Art and Design show, Brick Lane, London E1. 2010 Consuming Nature, The Octagon, Bath 2009 Solo Exhibition, The CREATE Centre gallery, Bristol 2009 Degree Show, Bath Spa University … Read More
