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Rebecca Gilpin (UK) is a London-based painter whose practice explores rhythm as it appears in the natural world, music, and urban life. Her oil paintings serve as records of her decision-making process, shaped by a deep sensitivity to her environment. Each canvas becomes both a journey and a portrait of an inner landscape, where colour, form, and movement collide.

Working without a predetermined outcome, Gilpin enters a flow state in the studio, often painting to music. Sound, along with memory, shifting light, reflection, and landscape inform her compositional choices and brushwork. The resulting visual language feels at once spontaneous and carefully constructed, with each gesture embedded in layered paint.

Gilpin’s work is rooted in a deep investigation into the materiality of oil paint. She experiments with thick and thin applications, layering and removal, and the tension between transparency and opacity. Light also plays a central role in her work, from the synthetic glow of music venues to the natural shifts of daylight, transforming colour into an emotional force.

Many of her paintings are titled after the songs or song lyrics that inspired them, reinforcing the ongoing interplay between sound and image. For Gilpin, painting becomes a way to process the world when language falls short. Her practice is as much about formal concerns – rhythm, depth, transparency, as it is about perception, sensation, and the experience of being. Paintings frequently play with perception, using layering to prompt the viewer to ask, “Which colour was applied first?” They invite close looking, drawing the eye to underpainting and traces of past gestures. To create an immersive experience, Gilpin often installs her larger works low on the wall.

Gilpin worked with PM/AM in 2022–2023 and has exhibited internationally, including at Melzi Fine Art in Milan (2024) and the Kelly-McKenna Gallery in New Jersey (2025). Her work is held in private collections globally and is on public display in spaces such as the HIV Ward at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Rebecca Gilpin (UK) is a London-based painter whose practice explores rhythm as it appears in the natural world, music, and urban life. Her oil paintings serve as records of her decision-making process, shaped by a deep sensitivity to her environment. Each canvas becomes both a journey and a portrait of an inner landscape, where colour, form, and movement collide.

Working without a predetermined outcome, Gilpin enters a flow state in the studio, often painting to music. Sound, along with memory, shifting light, reflection, and landscape inform her compositional choices and brushwork. The resulting visual language feels at once spontaneous and carefully constructed, with each gesture embedded in layered paint.

Gilpin’s work is rooted in a deep investigation into the materiality of oil paint. She experiments with thick and thin applications, layering and removal, and the tension between transparency and opacity. Light also plays a central role in her work, from the synthetic glow of music venues to the natural shifts of daylight, transforming colour into an emotional force.

Many of her paintings are titled after the songs or song lyrics that inspired them, reinforcing the ongoing interplay between sound and image. For Gilpin, painting becomes a way to process the world when language falls short. Her practice is as much about formal concerns – rhythm, depth, transparency, as it is about perception, sensation, and the experience of being. Paintings frequently play with perception, using layering to prompt the viewer to ask, “Which colour was applied first?” They invite close looking, drawing the eye to underpainting and traces of past gestures. To create an immersive experience, Gilpin often installs her larger works low on the wall.

Gilpin worked with PM/AM in 2022–2023 and has exhibited internationally, including at Melzi Fine Art in Milan (2024) and the Kelly-McKenna Gallery in New Jersey (2025). Her work is held in private collections globally and is on public display in spaces such as the HIV Ward at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital.

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