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Oscillating between reality and imagination, Last’s visual portal straddles a fine line where the natural world, through a rich fabric of interconnectedness, reveals natural phenomenon in all its mysteries to be a shared experience. The artist states that her paintings arise from a consciousness that we are “all intimately connected to a physical planet from our fragile cellular makeup to the workings of a larger solar system on which our existence depends”.  Just as our physical and psychic beings rely on the environment we continue to influence, so too will forces, unseen by the naked eye, continue to affect human nature, our environmental conditions and the infinite mass of matter we refer to as “space”.

....she has taken to challenging the viewers conceptual reach with non - figurative representations of matter, mass, energy and light, tethering the knife’s edge between landscape, mutating atmospheric forms and ethereal solar matter. The technique and paint application used for these diverse representations are applied with the same integrity and virtuosity: a palpable physicality transferring energy, light and emotion between the painter and the viewer.


Edge of Chaos
The Paintings of Rebecca Last
essay, Kelly McCray

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