Rebekah Vermeulen (b. 1996 in El Paso, Texas) is a contemporary painter based in Tucson, Arizona. She started drawing after the sudden onset of an autoimmune disease at eighteen. Over the following years, Rebekah saw a return in her health and an increasing passion for art that led her to pursue an education in painting. She works with different combinations of india ink, acrylic paint, and oil paint on canvas, and is best known for creating representational paintings interwoven with abstract elements and recurring motifs such as birds and florals
While the overarching theme of her art is greatly influenced by the impact of hope and beauty in her life, Rebekah does not adhere to employing specific ideas or agendas for her work, preferring to allow intuition, curiosity, and discovery to guide the direction of her paintings. Her work is characterized by a dynamic interplay between fluid abstraction and delicate figurative elements, evoking a sense of both movement and introspection. She has developed a distinctive visual language that merges organic forms with poetic symbolism, with recent series inspired by the desert she calls home and the significance in searching for beauty among
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Rebekah graduated from the Milan Art Institute’s Online Mastery Program in 2022 and has exhibited in various shows, including GVAL Fine Art Show, Gilbert Visual Art League (group exhibition) Gilbert, Arizona, Out of the Blue, Ground Floor Artists (group exhibition), Surprise, Arizona, The Call of Hope, Artists & Makers Studio (solo exhibition), Oro Valley, Arizona.
