Rebecca Tucker

Rebecca Tucker is a Lancashire born/London based painter, with a BA in Fine Art from Reading University 1996 and is an alumni of the Turps Art School on their Off-Site Programme (2022-23). She is drawn to the resonance of specific locations and the unseen histories embedded within them. Each work begins with a search for a meaningful site: a landscape or environment that holds emotional or historical significance.

Recent notable successes include selection for the 2026 Britten Pears Summer Contemporary, being longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize 2026 and 2025, selection for the 2024, 2022 and 2021 ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London, selection for the Royal Watercolour Society Open 2024 and 2023 at Bankside Gallery, being selected for the Royal West of England Academy Open, the Wales Contemporary and the Society of Women Artists Open at the Mall Galleries in 2023, and selection for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022.

From this origin, her process becomes a gradual translation from place to photograph to painting, and finally toward abstraction. She is interested in how the eye and mind interpret visual information, how we locate meaning, subject, and emotional connection within a two-dimensional visual field. Each step in her process moves further from representation, inviting ambiguity and suggestion. Through the interplay of opposites, foreground against background, expressive gesture layered with fine detail, positive and negative space, she explores the tension between abstraction and representation.