About the Artist

Rebecca Stebbins began painting in 2001 in France, in the Drôme Provençale, in the middle of a 10-acre field of sunflowers. She has been painting ever since, seeking to recapture the delight of that experience in the landscapes around her home near the California coastal town of Carpinteria.

This year, she was tapped to create a chalk painting at the renowned I Madonnari chalk painting festival at the Santa Barbara Mission for the Friends of the Carpinteria Library. The complete work, which was 7'x7', can be seen here .

In 2007, she painted a landscape on an 8-foot long steelhead trout sculpture for a public art installation on State Street in Santa Barbara, California.

In addition to her regular painting activities, she has had the good fortune to teach, including working with a creative group of teens on a mural project for their school and running a 2-week summer arts camp for middle school students. This fall, she will be teaching a weekly class in a senior living facility.

Rebecca is a member of SCAPE, Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment, and the Carpinteria Valley Arts Council. Rebecca works mostly outside (weather permitting) and otherwise in her studio in Carpinteria, which is open by appointment and by invitation.

Rebecca was born in Seattle in 1963 and has lived in Santa Barbara County for the past 23 years, in Carpinteria since 1995. Prior to her life in California, she lived in Michigan and in New England. While painting at home, she often dreams of travel, which she does as often as possible.