Bio
Rebecca Chamberlain’s career as a fine artist and private art instructor began in 1995. She has taught workshops and classes in private studios, museums, libraries, arts organizations and educational cooperatives in Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia. With a deep appreciation for Italian Renaissance, Symbolist, and Pre-Raphaelite art, her work is inspired by artists from these movements. She is also inspired by art from the Golden Age of Illustration, Botanical Studies, and Contemporary Realism. Rebecca’s subjects are primarily portraiture, figurative, and still life. She works in graphite, charcoal, Faber-Castell polychromos colored pencils, ink and oil. Her original works can be found in private collections throughout the United States.
Artist’s statement:
"Above all, art is a never-ending process in which you learn something valuable with every creation that you bring forth. My first love has always been drawing. A pencil or pen is so pure and honest. There is an immediacy there that captivates me and satisfies me unlike any other art form. In the words of Camille Pissarro, “It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in it’s true character."

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Education
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·Dorian Moe Atelier
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June 1,1989- August1,1989-Summer intensive in oil painting with Artist Dorian Moe Atelier- Artworks Studio Pikeville, Kentucky.
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1990-1991- Prestonsburg College (Art History and Art Studio)
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1991-1992- University of Kentucky College( Majors in Art History and Art Studio)
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Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA(Jan 2008- May 2010- (BA earned in Art History with a minor in History.)
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National Gallery of Art- 2013 (March 16)- National Gallery of Art Teacher Workshops, Washington DC. The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde- Millais’ Ophelia in Focus- Curriculum Connections: Art and Literature for High School Students.
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Studio Paradiso-Seattle, WA,2020(November 12-15) David Gray Portrait Painting Workshop.
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The Florence Studio-2021 (October 15-21) Oil Painting Intensive with Laura Thompson- Florence, Italy.