Rebecca Stebbins lives and paints near Santa Barbara, California. She began painting in 2001 in France in the middle of a field of sunflowers and has been painting ever since, seeking to recapture the delight of that experience in the landscapes around her home near the coastal town of Carpinteria.

Rebecca works to capture her subject and simplify it with brushstrokes, looking for the essential qualities of mountains, ocean, fields of grass, or flowers in a vase.

In addition to painting en plein air and in the studio, she enjoys participating in public art projects. In 2008 and 2009, she created chalk paintings at the renowned I Madonnari festival at the Santa Barbara Mission. In 2007, she painted an 8-foot long steelhead trout sculpture for a public art installation in Santa Barbara.

Rebecca teaches art at The Howard School. She is on the board of SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment), and belongs to the Santa Barbara Art Association and the Carpinteria Valley Arts Council. Born in Seattle, raised in the midwest, and educated on the east coast, she has lived in Santa Barbara County for 25 years. While painting at home, she dreams of travel, which she does as often as possible. She is looking forward to returning to France for another summer painting adventure this year.

Rebecca Stebbins