Artist Bio
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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
St. Michael's College
B.A. Fine Arts Music and Journalism
Galleries
2025 - Art Hound Gallery, Essex Junction
2024 - 2025 - SPACE Gallery, Burlington VT exhibiting member
2022-2025 – Milton Artists Guild exhibiting member
2024-2025 - SEABA Curation Program, Burlington, VT
2024-2025 - Artwork at Fine Art America –online
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Solo Exhibitions:
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
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Juried Shows
2024 - "Art Hop Director's Cut" – The Vaults, SEABA Burlington, VT
2022 - “Fine Feathers” – Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, VT
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Vendor
Castleberry Arts Craft Fairs
Yarmouth, MA
Wilmington, MA
802 Arts House -Celebrate Vermont Craft Fairs
South Burlington, VT
Huntington Valley Arts, Huntington, VT
Black Flannel Brewing, Essex, VT
Cambridge Arts Council - Jeffersonville, VT Art Jam
SPACE Gallery, Burlington, VT
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Group Shows
2025
“The Bard” at SPA Gallery, Barre, VT
“Canopy” at AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH
"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
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