Rebecca Hawkins is a watercolour artist dedicated to capturing fleeting, often overlooked moments and objects of the everyday – transforming the mundane into the extraordinary through a delicate balance of precision and spontaneity unique to the medium.

Each piece is an invitation to slow down. In a world that moves increasingly fast, her paintings serve as a visual pause, urging the viewer to notice the vibrancy of a citrus fruit or the dignity of a fish. Utilising the tension between control and chaos, she uses her medium to capture the intricate details of the everyday, and through this lens, nothing remains simply “just” an object— everything becomes a story waiting to be told in pigment.

Working in watercolour—a medium known for its stubborn personality— Rebecca leans into its inherent unpredictability. By allowing the paint to behave and express itself naturally, she creates a sense of life and movement in her works that mirrors the organic nature of the subjects she paints.

While many seek inspiration in the grand and the cinematic, Rebecca finds it in the fridge or the floor. Whether that’s stones on a pebble beach, the food she consumes or the insects in a garden, her approach to finding joy and beauty in “ordinary” objects in the world around us brings about an elevated simplicity that celebrates textures and colour and forces a new perspective of the things that define our daily lives with appreciation and gratitude.