Thorp Perrow Arboretum, The Sketch Collection

Rebecca Styles

Thorp Perrow Arboretum The Sketch Collec4on

Thorp Perrow Arboretum

The Sketch Collec4on

This collec*on of twenty oil sketches represents the midpoint of landscape painter Rebecca Styles’ one year Residence at Thorp Perrow Arboretum in Yorkshire. Each work has been created en plein air throughout the spring and early summer of 2024 in Thorp Perrow’s spectacular 100 acre estate, as the seasons bring new and ever changing colour and texture to the landscape. These in*mate and revealing works document the ar*st’s progression towards a major collec*on of large scale pain*ngs, which will be exhibited at Harrogate’s 108 Fine Art in the summer of 2025.

Each of Rebecca’s collec*ons stems from extended projects related to unique loca*ons. Using natural materials, she explores a deeper connec*on to ‘place’ with an emphasis on crea*ng landscape with landscape, using local earth pigments to create her oil paints. Rebecca is a recipient of a Visual Ar*st and CraR Makers Award and a Crea*ve Scotland Ar*st Bursary for her work involving raw pigments and tradi*onal paint making. She was recently shortlisted for the Andrew Stewart Award.

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