Rebecca Cottrell

Painter living in South East London

I make paintings of strange objects, creatures, structures and staged worlds. I return to these forms because they suggest something unknown, just beyond ordinary reality. I want my work to create a certain feeling: an uncanniness, a recognition of something that's been forgotten.

Education & practice

2026 to 2027

Turps painting CC

2026

Royal Drawing School, drawing intensive

2017 to 2019

Royal College of Art, MA Visual Communication


Recent works

Unfixed

Unfixed, oil on wood panel, 20x30cm, 2026

Noyb

None of your business, 15x10cm, oil on wood panel, 2026

Traffic cone

Reclaimed (i), oil on wood panel, 15x10cm, 2026