BIO

Rebecca Styles

Born 1982, Bradford, UK/ Resides and works in Lincolnshire, UK

At the heart of the artists Creative process, is a deep and powerful reverence for the natural world. Rebecca chooses to work on a natural ground, and with oil and paints created with pigment foraged at source, to bind her works with a strong connection to place. She sees the creation of each painting, as an opportunity for reflection on the human journey, Inspired by the unaltered landscape. She works nomadically across the British Isles and beyond, creating works which evoke a sense of the sublime. Rebecca's paintings create space to question the human/nature relationship, inviting the viewer to stand alone within a painted wilderness, encouraging a period of quiet introspection. The wild Atlantic coastline of her childhood holidays on the Isle Arran, along with her memories of the rugged and unspoilt North Yorkshire moors, paved the way to her love of the untamed wild and raw.

Her work is exhibited in galleries across the UK, and held in private collections in America, Australia and Europe. She is the recipient of a Vacma Award and Creative Scotland Artist Bursary for her work involving local raw pigments and traditional paint making. 

Rebecca Styles 

Born 1982, Bradford, UK/ Resides and works in Lincolnshire, UK

Education

Bradford College ND Foundation Art studies

Falmouth College BA Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Four Seasons,A year at Thorp Perrow Arboretum - 108 Fine Art Harrogate  

2024

Hawthorn, Hedgerow and Heath - Whitewater Contemporary, Polzeath Cornwall

2023

Two weeks at the Cape - Whitewater contemporary, Polzeath, Cornwall

2022

Finding Lewis - Talla Na Mara, West Harris, Outer Hebrides

Alchemy, Two person exhibition with Heather Mackay Young, Timsagarry  Outer Hebrides

Bigger than us - Grinneabhat  Braggar, Isle Of Lewis

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Britten Pears Summer Contemporary, Snape Maltings, Suffolk

The Ceilidh House, Baile na Cille, Uig Isle of Lewis Western Isles

2024

Art in conversation I'- A summer exhibition 108 Fine Art Harrogate    

Caroline Wiseman, Aldeburgh Lookout Summer exhibition

2023

Whitewater Contemporary, Polzeath virtual showcase

The Jetty Gallery Oban Mixed summer exhibition

2022

An Talla Solais , On the Street - Flow  Ullapool, Scotland

2021

Hulabhaig Open winter show Uig Western Isles

Society of Scottish Artists 30 x30 exhibition RSA Edinburgh

The Jetty Gallery, Oban - winter exhibition

Little Buckland Gallery, Cotswolds - Littoral

Coast Gallery , Dunbar - Changing tides

Broadway Arts Festival finalist exhibition

An Talla Solias members exhibition

Moy Mackay gallery Peebles - until sunrise

2020

Hulabhaig re-imagined Uig Summer exhibition

Paisley Art Institute Annual exhibition

Aberdeen Arts society Annual exhibition

Creative Flow Edinburgh, Nature is you

2016

Procession Stroud Center for Art and Science

Residencies

2019 Finding Lewis - Outer Hebrides UK

2023 Brisons Veor - Cape Cornwall UK

2023 Casa Tagumerche - La Gomera , Canary Islands

2024  Thorp Perrow Arboretum  Bedale , North Yorkshire

Workshops , talks and demonstrations

2022 Mentorship with Louise Balaam

2022 paint making techniques Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides

Awards and Prizes

2023 Andrew Stewart Award shortlist winner  

2021 Creative Scotland Open fund award for Individuals

2021 VACMA award Scotland

Selected Press

Yorkshire Living Magazine issue July 2025 - Feature article, Painting the Trees, by Catherine Turnbull

The Times newspaper, Thursday July 4th 2024

Yorkshire Post, weekend Magazine, Finally back to her roots  Catherine Scott, February 2024

Drift Magazine, Devotional Painting, feature article by Mercedes Smith,

Art Mag, Bigger Than Us , issue 203/204, march 2022

Drift Magazine, abstract Thinking, Volume 27