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 Banana 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.

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.

Her practice examines the interplay between image and surface, and the duality of the painting as both object and illusion. Each work functions as a piece where opposing elements converge and negotiate their presence. Within each work, materiality and illusion coexist, this tension creates a dynamic visual experience, in which the viewer’s attention is drawn into a shifting dialogue between surface and image, between abstraction and representation.

Recent notable successes include selection for the 2025 Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist, 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, selection for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, being shortlisted for the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2022 and being longlisted in the 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize.

Rebecca is represented by Lara Bowen Contemporary, The Art Buyer, BobCat Gallery, Wychwood Gallery, and Mint Arts, and has been exhibited in multiple group shows and at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea and Hampstead.

As an active member of ArtCan Org Rebecca has had pieces accepted into several curated physical and online exhibitions and has curated several group exhibitions featuring 80+ artists.