About
Rebecca Thorne is an award-winning visual artist, based near Edenderry, Co Offaly. Self-taught in her 50s, her work explores memory, grief and identity through her connection to the landscape. She works primarily in oils and charcoal in an expressive, semi-abstract style.
Exhibitions and awards
2026
- Selected: An Chead Tine 3rd Annual Exhibition, Kilkenny
- Awarded a scholarship with Workshops in Yorkshire by artist Frances Bell RP ROI
- Longlisted: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
- Award for Excellence, Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven
2025
- Exhibited Winter Exhibition at Ranelagh Arts, Dublin
- Exhibited Offaly Artists Exhibition at the Esker Art Centre, Tullamore
- Shortlisted the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Inaugural Drawing Prize, Hull
2024
- Exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
- Exhibited at the Women in Art Fair, The Mall Galleries, London
2023
- Exhibited Dartmoor Collective Summer Exhibition, Devon
2022
- Awarded Highly Commended by the judges of the international TALP Open & selected for their online exhibition
At exhibitions
Ranelagh Arts Winter Exhibition, Dublin, 2025 
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, annual exhibition, Edinburgh 
The Women in Art Fair, The Mall Galleries, London, 2024
