The Artwork of Rebecca Carol Davis

I’ve drawn and painted for as long as I can remember, my first formal oil painting classes beginning in fourth grade when I begged my parents to replace my dreaded piano lessons with a chance at color. Whether it was my incessant nagging or my hideous rendition of chopsticks that did the trick, I began to work with brush and color at 9 and have never sullied those piano keys again.

I studied visual arts at Bennington College and Antioch College where I graduated with a BA in Expressive arts, and at JFK University in Arts & Consciousness, University California – Santa Cruz and the Scottsdale Art Institute.

I’ve sporadically displayed and sold my artwork, though have chosen to spend my time creating rather than marketing. I’ve been part of a juried show at the Triton Museum of Arts in Santa Clara, and will, in 2007, begin to submit my slides more aggressively.

I worked with pastels and acrylic until 2000, when watercolor began to usurp all other media, and now defines my work. In 2006, I was introduced to a new technique – a “wet-on-wet” watercolor/saturation process shown to me by Carol Duchamp, an artist I’ve known for over ten years (organizer of UC Santa Cruz Art Trek) but had never taken a class from. This technique perfectly meshed with my sensibilities, and 2006 proved an incredibly prolific, happy year of color explosion.