Rebecca graduated from San Jose State with an Interior Design degree and from National University where she layered on a teaching degree. In her work teaching history, children’s art lessons were one of her most rewarding experiences.
Rebecca paints in oil on gallery-wrapped canvases from her home studio in Pollock Pines. Her style changed drastically nine years ago when her father died. At this painful moment she moved away from just painting the world around her and began painting the contagious joy she saw in others experiencing life’s simple pleasures. This is what healed her heart, and what she now paints to share with others. She travels often and finds it such fun to put her observations of people in everyday activities onto the canvas. She finds that people in hats automatically make her smile; so many of her portraits have people wearing jaunty hats. The vision and goal of her paintings is to connect people to everyday joys. She paints to take others back to a memory and make a connection to that experience. She believes that joy is always possible if you look for it.
She was awarded the Bank of America Achievement in Art award in 1978.
She won first place in the people and portrait division of the Placerville Art Association Fall
Show 2023 and took an honorable mention for her still life painting.
Her paintings are a reminder that there is joy everyday all around us and God is indeed good.