Detail of Icarus #4
​VISUAL ARTIST
Rebecca Mason
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BIOGRAPHY:​
Chelsea, Quebec artist Rebecca (Becky) Mason studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCAD) in Toronto where she first developed her unique painting style. Using acrylics taking inspiration from her natural surroundings with water, trees, canoes and mountains as the central themes. She is passionate about canoeing and the environment and she explores these subjects through her painting, writing, environmental concerns, and as well as her speaking tours.
SELECT LIST OF EXHIBITIONS:
Becky has exhibited at galleries and juried exhibitions in Ontario and Quebec. Including the Cube Gallery, Casino de Hull, Ottawa City Hall, Maison du Citoyen à Hull, Ottawa Art Gallery Rentals and Sales, Museum of Nature, McDonald-Cartier International Airport.
PARALLEL LIVES
Excerpt by Phil Jenkins.
“...Becky Mason’s hands are very adept at holding a brush or paddle; when the paddle is in her grip these days, more often than not she is teaching. It’s her summer job, passing on to many local canoeists and outlying paddlers in a wide radius the considerable skills her father Bill taught her. Bill Mason was a famous canoeist and a painter, and an undeniable influence on his daughter in that he helped her to look at nature with a clear, loving eye.
When the brush strokes replace the paddle strokes......In her studio room within the house, Becky thinks gives deep thought to her next series--it might be mountains, ice storms or canoes or waves on a shore, currently it’s trees--and then executes them rapidly, almost as though she is on auto-memory....
The Low down To Hull and Back, July 29, 2009.