Artist
Rebecca Sammon
Rebecca Sammon is a British artist currently living and working in London. Rebecca studied Fine Art at the University of Brighton and spent six months in Kansas studying Painting and Poetry.
Following a period of time working in the fashion industry, Rebecca left London and travelled around Asia, drawing daily. She drew from imagination, trying to capture snippets of the colour and energy of the spaces she visited and upon her return to London developed her practice and completed The Drawing Intensive at the Royal Drawing School.
Rebecca’s work uses a bold and playful colour palette and she is influenced by the movement of the human body, as well as drawing upon mythology as a source of inspiration. She has recently shown works at Blue Shop Cottage, Bowes-Parris Gallery, Daniel Raphael Gallery, All Mouth Gallery amongst others and has work acquired by Soho House and private collections globally.
Rebecca's Style
Use of colour is a vital element of Rebecca’s work, she references Pierre Bonnard’s landscapes as endlessly inspiring, specifically how he could truly transport you to a different place with his palette, as well as Hilma AF Klint’s sense of balance in her pieces and how colours interact in her paintings as a great source of inspiration.
While her inspirations vary, Rebecca has always had a fascination with mythology. She loves the blurred lines of myths with factual origins that over time become almost entirely fictional. Through this lens, she has always been inspired by the potential to create a story through art and likes her pieces to be open to interpretation - meaning different things to different people.
Rebecca often works with Pencil & Oil Pastel on Paper, exploring the immediacy of working with Oil Pastels, creating rather solid flat planes of colour. She often works into the paper revealing and concealing the lines, which creates an element of chance to the work as sometimes things emerge when the materials combine, creating unexpected results.
"My aim with my work is to create something that feels close to music. This is something that I come back to again and again, I want the work to transport the viewer to another space for them to explore - something for me to keep aiming for." - Rebecca Sammon
AVAILABLE ARTWORKS
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September Drop 2023
"This collection includes an exploration of a new medium with paintings using pigments and acrylic paint on raw canvas - a medium that allows the paint to move freely, soaking and staining the canvas. The figures in the painting blur into the landscape moved around by working with water and raw pigment. These pieces are transitory snapshots as with each amendment using this technique the painting would change - some figures lost as the paint and water moves around the surface. A point of reference I regularly come back to rings strong through these pieces. My grandmother was born and grew up on a remote island off the west coast of ireland, living in the only house on the island surrounded by rugged landscape and the wild Atlantic Ocean. 'In Tides' is a collection where these transitory figures are one with the moving water they emerge from." - Rebecca Sammon, In Tides
May Drop 2023
"Valleys of Bright Shadows is a collection of landscape and figurative scenes, these are emerging from fractured memories and reset into new imagined scenes with snapshots of briefly remembered trees in the breeze and rolling mountains in sundrenched hypercolour." - Rebecca Sammon, The Valley Of Bright Shadows
Feb Drop 2023
"I started the year working on small scale sketches which often feel like a nice way to begin a project, I found a preciousness through the process of working at this scale and experimented working up these pieces as much as larger works. This became a series of miniatures, small snapshots of imagined worlds and the figures that live there." - Rebecca Sammon, The Miniatures
Winter Prints 2022
Drop 4 - Autumn 2022
"In this collection the colours and figures are plucked from an imagined golden hour -that short time the sky is soft and warm just before or after sunrise, most of the pieces in the collection have gold or copper panels which also change depending on the time of day and shimmer in the light. All pieces in the collection come in Gold metal frames to compliment the light reflecting details." - Rebecca Sammon, The Golden Hour
Drop 2 - Summer 2022
"These figures in these paintings are woozy with a heady sun kissed feeling, exploring a post festival sun drenched landscape, finding shade in trees, clouds and foliage. I have been experimenting with pattern in this collection and some of the figures are dressed in bright prints ready for revelry and head to head into a summer of love.
This series of paintings are a step in a new direction for my work, all using thin layers of acrylic on canvas, It has been great to work on some larger scale pieces and try new materials whilst still continuing to work from imagination and building on creating a mythological world for these figures to explore." - Rebecca Sammon, Sun Stroke
A Residency - This House
This collection was created during a week-long residency in the Cotswolds cottage ‘This House’ with her newborn baby Connie-Jean in tow. Read our ‘Diary Of’ journal feature where Rebecca takes us along on this journey to reconnect with making art after becoming a mother.
In The Flesh
This curation is on show at our exhibition 'In The Flesh'. It was on display at 105 Pimlico Road, SW1W 8NQ from 25th November to 19th December 2021. This will be the first time that the artists of Partnership Editions have come together in a physical space since lockdown has lifted, and it celebrates the very fact that we're able to see their works in person again. We embrace the many purposes of an exhibition: a way to unite artists and collectors, and an opportunity to engage with both people and art - something we've all been deprived of for too long. The works in this exhibition have been selected based on their exceptional skill and power to communicate. See their colours, their textures, experience their emotions, let them get under your skin...in the flesh.
Drop 6 - Winter 2021
"This collection embraces a spirit of magic a space where representations of otherworldly dreamers, mythological dancers and allegorical lovers interact. They are scattered with symbols that tie them together to form a narrative, connecting each piece like a string of memories, transient and weaving from one into the next within their imagined spaces." - Rebecca Sammon, Cassiopeia
Drop 4 - High Summer 2021
"I wanted to create a collection inspired by my fascination with movement and the potential of transformation. I spent a day drawing a contortionist and became intrigued by the mesmerising way they can bend and move their bodies - I wanted to explore this further with these pieces.
When studying the contortionist in motion - it feels like an intimate snapshot of the potential for transformation through dedication and repetition - the fluidity of the form - moulding and bending into unexpected shapes through years of stretching and strengthening. I find it inspiring how the contortionists can turn their bodies into serpent-like, otherworldly creatures - moving with complete fluidity and transforming from a solid form to one that moves through space without limits." - Rebecca Sammon, The Contortionists
Drop 3 - Summer 2021
“For this collection, I focussed on the interactions and relationships between two figures. I was inspired by an anonymous Elizabethan love poem ‘Love Me Little, Love Me Long’, The sentiments within the poem felt as universally relevant now as they were when written in 1570 and I wanted to create a series that explored these themes.
With each piece in this series being the same size, the duos have a space to explore together and make their own. I selected a three colour reduced palette for each work as the way these colours interact alters the mood and dynamic within the piece - further emphasising the interactions and relationships on view." - Rebecca Sammon, To You My Love
FOLIOLE
"Foliole is my debut collection, the word Foliole relates to a small leaf shaped structure or something resembling a leaf - a recurrent symbol throughout this collection. The figures inhabiting Foliole are exploring imagined spaces, recurrent leafy shapes exist with other illusory forms that are presented alongside the figures exploring these worlds. These figures exist in a liminal space between the dream and the representational. These figures exist with symbols such as moving leaves, swaying trees and winged creatures that alter the way we see them, both obscuring and interacting within the frame." - Foliole, Rebecca Sammon
