BA Honours, University of Guelph, 2018
Can you believe these are made with marker pens? The medium of childhood – uncapped, immediate, unforgiving – turned into something luminous, layered, alive. Rebecca Payne draws the world as if it were still possible to see it for the first time. Fields hum, skies pulse, branches seem to breathe. Her work moves somewhere between recollection and revelation, each line alive with a kind of nervous system. Every mark feels exact; colour placed with an intuition earned through solitude, attention, a fierce kind of joy.
My name is Rebecca Payne. I love to approach landscapes with non-traditional mediums and perspectives. I have a fascination with liminal spaces, and the bittersweet feeling of parting with fleeting moments. My current work explores themes of loneliness, awkwardness, and atmospheres within spaces, as well as the mutual exchange between artist and environment.