About the Arist :: Rebecca Daugherty
“I’d have to consider my mother my earliest influence in art. I was five years old. Although I had seen her draw before, I had never seen her paint. One afternoon she climbed out my bedroom window onto the roof of the porch to do an oil painting of a mountain. I was never allowed to go out onto the roof. Fascinated, I watched her from the open window. I thought, I want to do that. I want to use little dabs of creamy colors to create a mountain. I want to sit on a roof. I decided to be a painter.”
Rebecca Daugherty began to appreciate wooden boats when she was fourteen and her family moved aboard a sailboat. “It must have been all that sanding and varnishing. It makes you look at boats very closely and learn to appreciate their lines and character.”
Rebecca’s early work reflects her interest in form and nature: the unfolding petals of a flower or leaves of an artichoke, spiraling interiors of broken shells, and rock formations of the Southwest. These images created the foundation of themes and forms that continue in her present work.
Rebecca has been exhibiting her work since 1988. She earned a BA at Goddard College with an emphasis in painting and then studied art education and printmaking at the University of Iowa.