Artist Bio
Rebecca Padula is a Vermont-based visual artist. A lifelong musician, Rebecca’s creative journey began as a singer, songwriter, and performer before shifting to visual art in 2020.
Her work explores the intersection of memory, landscape, and abstraction, drawing inspiration from New England’s rural environment and the color field and abstract expressionist painters of the 20th century.
Working intuitively with layered color, texture, and asemic writing, Rebecca creates compositions that reflect a personal connection to place. She works in oil with cold wax medium as well as mixed media.
Statement
I am a lifelong musician. Singing has always grounded me. For decades, I was a songwriter, guitarist, and performer. In 2020, the world changed—and so did I. My creative expression shifted abruptly and passionately to visual art. Painting became my way to create and share peace and joy in uncertain times.
I love to explore color, shape, line, and composition, and draw my inspiration from the abstract expressionists, color field painters, and the New England landscape.
My visual language is intuitive and playful, rooted in emotion, movement, and memory.
I work in mixed media, on paper and wood panels, including acrylic or oil paint mixed with cold wax medium, soft pastels, pencils, crayons, and collage elements.
CV
1989-1992
B.A. Fine Arts Music and Journalism
St. Michael's College
Galleries
2025 -2026 Art Hound Gallery, Essex Junction
2024 - 2026 - S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington VT exhibiting member
2022-2026 – Milton Artists Guild exhibiting member
2024-2025 - SEABA Curation Program, Burlington, VT
2024-2026 - Fine Art America – prints available online
Solo Exhibitions:
2026
The Gallery at LCATV, Colchester, VT
The Nest, Essex Junction, VT
Studio Place Arts, Barre VT
2025
The Gallery at LCATV, Colchester, VT
Carpenter Carse Library, Hinesburg, VT
Community Bank Gallery, So Hero, VT, sponsored by Island Arts
Dorothy Ailing Memorial Library in Williston, VT
2024 -
Blue Paddle Bistro in So Hero, VT
Painted Lady Café, Milton VT
“Fields and Meadows” at Richmond Public Library, Richmond, VT
2023
Milton Town Office, Milton, VT
The Nest, Essex Junction, VT
Juried Shows
2024 - "Art Hop Director's Cut" – The Vaults, SEABA Burlington, VT
2022 - “Fine Feathers” – Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, VT
Vendor
Castleberry Arts Craft Fairs: Yarmouth and Wilmington, MA (2025)
802 Arts House -Celebrate Vermont Craft Fairs, South Burlington, VT (2025)
Huntington Valley Arts, Huntington, VT (2025)
Black Flannel Brewing, Essex, VT (2025)
Cambridge Arts Council - Jeffersonville, VT Art Jam (2025, 2026)
SPACE Gallery, Burlington, VT (2025)
Bizaar Bazaar, Richmond VT (2026)
Group Shows
2026
"Winter Show" Pierson Library, Shelburne, VT
"Held Together: An Group Exhibition of Analog Collage," SPACE Gallery, Burlington VT
"May Member Show," SPACE Gallery, Burlington VT
"Milk Cans, Bees & Maple Trees" Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
2025
“The Bard” at SPA Gallery, Barre, VT
“Canopy” at AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH
Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Colchester VT
"Locals" Pierson Library, Shelburne, VT
“Flash the Headlights” at SEABA, Burlington, VT
2024
"Smalls" Axel's Gallery, Waterbury, VT
“Head For the Hills” Studio Place Arts, Barre
“Violacious” Studio Place Arts, Barre
“Sun’s Out” Sparrow Art in Middlebury
"Art of the Lake" The Gallery at LCATV, Colchester, VT (curator)
2023
“Watershed” – Huntington Valley Arts