Rebecca Hawthorn
With qualifications and a background in design, New Zealand artist Rebecca Hawthorn swapped a career in the fashion industry to become a full-time artist in 2018. Rebecca’s floral paintings are created using a process driven method which involves building up many layers of brightly hued acrylic paint. The paint is thickened with molding paste and applied over several sittings with brushes and palette knives to create a richly textured surface. These layers are then buried under thin coats of paint which are wiped away and sanded back to reveal the floral shapes beneath.
