Rebecca Guyver

Rebecca Moss Guyver is an American Suffolk, UK-based egg tempera painter. She also repurposes old books and draws in them and on them in pastel. Her egg tempera paintings are mainly still life. Her books are about the landscape. She studied Painting and Drawing at Stanford University (1978 -1982) with some of the Bay area painters. Rebecca was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 2025, was NEAC drawing Scholar (2018), exhibited in the RA Summer Exhibition (2023) and was longlisted for the Jackson Painting Prize (2023, 2025, 2026). Rebecca tells stories with objects collected from charity shops and car boot sales. Her tableau of fruit, figurines and patterns become symbols through which viewers can imagine universal places, people, things and experiences. She has a joyful approach to reflecting on life and always begins with colour. She thinks of painting as a series of corrections until harmony is achieved and likes the metaphor of tuning an instrument to describe her process.