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ABOUT ME Hi! I’m Rebekah Lowell
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Hello, I’m Rebekah— an author, illustrator, and surface pattern designer from Maine. I love creating artwork inspired by the natural world, while considering how we humans interact with the wild spaces around us. Projects that evoke a sense of wonder, or invite a closer look, are especially appealing. I work in both traditional and digital media. When I’m not in my studio, I’m rescuing wild birds, raising monarchs, gardening, and spending time outside with my family.
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STUDIES 2020 - 2021
Surface Pattern Design Immersion with Bonnie Christine
2014 -2019
MFA, Hollins University
2000 - 2004
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
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E X E R I E N C E & E VE N T S 2021
Maine Audubon’s ‘Brush with Nature’ juried plein air event.
2021 - present
author/illustrator at Doubleday Books for Young Readers/ Random House
2020-present
The Andrea Brown Literary Agency
2019 - present
author/illustrator at Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House
2011, 2014, 2017, 2020
Maine Duck Stamp Artist
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Surface Pattern Design
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THE ROAD
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TO AFTER
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WILD &
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EMERGE
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THANK YOU
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From struggle comes growth, and in this collection, Rebekah illustrates the
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duality through natural elements such as darkness and light, thorns and blooms, confinement and freedom. Inspired by her novel in verse, THE ROAD TO AFTER, this collection reminds us that on the other side of a storm is the sun, and on the other side of pain is renewal.
HERO PRINTS
tiger lily
fly free
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thorns past
winding road
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In these coordinate prints, Rebekah seeks to epxress a side of nature that often goes overlooked. There is beauty in overcoming a struggle and hope is always through the clouds. last drop of rain
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BLENDER PRINTS
light
Blender prints can soften the collection and bring a unified feeling.
a stione’s throw
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behind the ivy wall
sharp green points
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A WRITER Rebekah likes ot explore outside whenever she can and bring that inspiration into the studio. The Road to After was also inspired by her
middle grade novel in verse, releasing with Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin in May, 2022.
I N S P I R AT I O N Freedom Growth Healing
nature
M AT E R I A L S pen, charcoal, pencil, watercolor, ink
TOOLS Adobe Illustrator iPad, Procreate © Rebekah Lowell Creative Studio 2021
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A field of wildflowers, birds, and butterflies is a never-ending playground and world of wonder. In this collection, Rebekah reimagines her childhood spent in grasses taller than she was. In the field that waves with the wind, many critters find a home, and it is home for her heart.
bobolinks
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W O N D E R , E X P L O R E , WA N D E R
cow vetch
Soft and gentle details.
buttercups
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imagine
To lay back in a field and look up at the sky,
imagining what the clouds could be is happiness. www.rebekahlowell.com
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deer ones
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through the trees
trout lilies
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Bluets
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wonder
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A butterfly can only earn their wings after struggle. Each summer I rescue, raise, and release monarchs— my highest number so far, being 154 in 2020. This conservation project for me is part of a mission to help the monarch’s plight for survival because their journey from egg to winged wonder is fraught with peril, but it is also because witnessing metamorphosis is healing for me. As a survivor of abuse, the monarch butterfly speaks to my heart and gives me hope and strength. Below is a poem I wrote from a monarch’s of view.
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winged woinders
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Emerge by Rebekah Lowell I emerge, crawl,
and nibble milkweed. I molt,
and grow
on the leaves
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until I spin a silk anchor
to grasp while I change, upside down,
into a quiet cloak— my chrysalis,
where I wait. Outside
I look still, but inside,
I’m lacing together, into something new. I emerge, free.
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caterpillar stripe
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COSMOS
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WILD ASTERS
MONARCH BOUQUET
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M I G R AT I O N
A LABOR O F L OVE
Rebekah rescued and released 415 monarchs in 2021 alone.
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EMERGE
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milkweed leaves
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T R A N S F O R M AT I O N
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F O LL O W M E
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Thank you Let’s create together.
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with love from Rebekah
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