Rebecca Sower

The person behind the work

I have been a working artist for the past 25 years, but I consider myself a lifelong creative. As a tiny girl, I sat on the floor of my grandmother’s sewing studio in Nashville and developed a love for color, pattern, texture and beauty. Much of that influence carries over into my current artworks. I believe art should sing a song, tell a story. Each painting I begin is a new adventure and experiment for me. My work begins in a very personal way, where I scribble down my thoughts and feelings onto the canvas, my wishes and blessings for the potential collector. From there, things build up layer by layer, a long but rewarding process. I hope my art compels the viewer to pause and stare a bit, to find secrets and surprises in the layers there. Artistically, I am fascinated by many things…our wildlife friends, a tree’s meandering branches, the expressions of a human face, the negative spaces around the wading birds. I’m endlessly in awe of interesting lines, shapes and layers. Those are the lenses through which I see the world. And so my art (everyone’s art really) is simply a pulling together of these creative elements.