Current teacher at Place des Arts (2024/2025 season)
Biography
Rebecca Blair has been teaching for over twenty years at Place des Arts. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Lethbridge and a Master’s of Arts from the University of Victoria. For nine years, Rebecca taught art classes at Whatcom Community College in Washington State. She also worked as an arts instructor for a semester in Florence and attended a fresco restoration workshop in Altamura, Puglia. Rebecca has shown her art work at the East Vancouver Cultural Crawl and Place des Arts. Rebecca’s body of work focuses on landscapes and portraits in charcoal and watercolour.
Artist Statement
I love capturing landscapes while I am travelling overseas. I will sit down at a view and create my own postcard memory, all the while taking in the ambient sensations while I sketch. My intention is to emphasize the fleeting moment of travel. I also show how light falls on the landscape and enrich it with colours or textures that unify and celebrate the environment steeped in history.