A Lifetime of Chasing Beauty, Grand or Mean Female Oil Painter from Appalachia with Roots in the Renaissance

Rebecca King's paintings are in private collections down the Eastern seaboard, from Virgina to Florida and as far west as Montana.  King studied drawing, oil, and fresco painting with the Nation’s preeminent draftsman and fresco painter Benjamin Long IV in North Carolina at the end of the Twentieth  Century.  As a child of the 1980's with the rise of the technological revolution, King chose early in life to pursue a respect for the Art of many centuries.  Through mentor ship with Long, King established a bridge of understanding back to the foundational principles that drove the Art of the Renaissance.  Enjoying a renewed interest from the public for art that is informed by the past, King's influences are wide. Besides Long, the art of Rembrandt, Titan, Monet, Corot, and Constable all influence King's oil technique.  Building on budding talent, a determined work ethic and a dedication to a life time endeavor of making better art, King works in a private studio in Black Mountain, North Carolina and regularly travels across the world to paint landscapes and study the world’s greatest masterpieces. In addition, King is a member of the faculty at the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, a school dedicated to educating artists in the Classical Tradition. King’s oil paintings capture the emotive quality of her subjects, sometimes peaceful, sometimes dynamic, with fluid brushwork and a sensitivity to color relationships.

"Oil paint has always enchanted and enticed me from the very first time I encountered its tactical beauty in fine paintings as a little girl. Flecks of warm paint dancing on the surface still whisper to me about what is possible.  With each masterpiece I see, I feel the challenge of the possibilities of the medium.  For me the pursuit of capturing the subtleties of nature with a quiet spirit are enough of a challenge for life time.  Beauty is that place where the natural world and the spiritual world kiss. With paint, I dance around subtleties of feeling, and of spirit, in order to stand somewhere solid in the finished work."