Rebecca Rogers

I’m an illustrator, surface pattern designer and watercolour painter based in Bavaria.



Drawing and painting have always been a large part of my life and I’ve explored many creative fields and different media: Starting with acrylics, then oils, I did an apprenticeship as a gilder in Munich, followed by a year-long course to become a Kirchenmalermeisterin (which translates as master church painter, but mainly involved learning to paint with a variety of traditional techniques and paint-recipes from as far back as the Middle Ages). After that I painted murals for a couple of years, for about one year I was focused on oil paintings of water, then portraits in pencil and oil.

Since 2018 I’ve focussed on watercolour and have learned form some incredible artists, attending workshops by Lev Kaplan, Ilya Ibryaev, Viktoria Prischedko, Cesc Farré, Eudes Correia, Igor and Ekaterina Sava and Joseph Zbukvic. I love the thousand different techniques this medium offers and all the strategic planning it demands to create paintings that look and feel effortless.


My subjects are landscapes, animals and nature in every form, which is endlessly fascinating to me. In my animal paintings, I want to show how they live and evoke both curiosity and a sense of connection. My landscapes either capture impressions from my travels, of Ireland, where I grew up, or of the beautiful Alpine foothills where I live now.
 

My aim, with every picture, is also to find a balance, the ideal, as I see it, between details and looseness, clarity and suggestion, expressivity and realism.