Rebecca Robinson is a Tennessee-based painter drawn to beautiful places, good light, and the stories the landscapes seem to hold.
Raised in Kentucky, Rebecca spent much of her childhood “riding the range” on her grandfather’s cattle farms, giving her a love for sweeping southern landscapes. While developing a somewhat unlikely obsession with the Impressionists as a child, she turned to collecting prints and fine art books to study the paintings she longed to see in person, and then headed outside to draw the houses, fields, and hills around her. In many ways, she is still doing the same thing.
After graduation from Vanderbilt University, Rebecca - along with her husband and growing family - lived in Nashville, Memphis, and Cincinnati, before settling down in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has painted for over twenty years, with a winding path that has taken her through acrylics, abstraction, and eventually back to the fine art world of expressive oil landscapes that first captured her imagination. Rebecca paints both in the studio and en plein air, an endeavor that has added authenticity and depth to her work.
Her paintings are layered, loose, bright, and intentionally leave a little unsaid. They are an invitation to linger, wander, remember, and imagine. There is a sense of optimism and mystery in each piece, each one as unique as the home it colors.
