Rebecca GorrellRebecca Gorrell is an artist, teacher, and rock climber living in Crested Butte, Colorado. While she has been involved in artistic pursuits her whole life, she has devoted herself to full-time painting (as much as a mother of a 13-year old can,) since retiring from math teaching in 2017. She is primarily self-taught.
“I paint them in order to amplify to myself and others what it is that stirs the awe I feel. When I paint, I see more clearly, and I hope that seeing my paintings makes others see more clearly too. I want people to turn from my paintings back to seeing their world around them, and to notice more of the gorgeous lines between light and shadow around them. To resonate to the warmth of light falling across a wall or rock, outlining a tree and haloing a roofline. To revel in the flash of hot color in a field of deep grey. A light-drenched dishcloth on a clothesline in front of a shadowed pine tree is all it takes. “ Rebecca rarely paints the grand scene, the iconic mountain, unless she sees something which makes it personal to her, and to the viewer. The scenes she usually gravitates toward are the smaller, more pedestrian ones, the ones you or I might overlook if we were sightseeing in a foreign place, but would gravitate to, if we were looking for a place to sit quietly with a book, have a visit with a friend, or take a swim under the big big sky. Rebecca has shown her work in Colorado and Maine, and in juried national shows. |
Population 103 by Rebecca Gorrell
18" x 24" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame or contact for another choice, Vona is a former railroad stop town for the eastern plains ranches.
Vona, CO
Outrunning the storm by Rebecca Gorrell
8" x 6" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame or contact for another choice, It felt crazy to stop the car and paint on the way home over Cimarron Pass,
Cimarron, CO
The Detour Tree by Rebecca Gorrell
12" x 9" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame or contact for another choice, A tree that we loved so much, we persuaded the highway designers to make a detour for.
Mile marker 12, Highway 135, Almont, CO
Town Ranch by Rebecca Gorrell
8" x 6" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame or contact for another choice, Painted overlooking the town ranch in Crested Butte, CO.
26612 Hwy 135, Crested Butte CO
Benediction 2021 by Rebecca Gorrell
12" x 9" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame or contact for another choice
Painted as the light came around the back side of Mt Crested Butte, Mt.
Crested Butte, CO
Wheeling in Sunshine By Rebecca Gorrell
16" x 12" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame OR Black and Gold plein air museum frame.
A quick stop on a cross-country drive.
Iowa, somewhere
Ticket To Ride By Rebecca Gorrell
24" x 12" Oil on Panel
Plein Air Museum Frame, Black and gold
Lily Lake is a favorite hike outside Crested Butte. A bonus is the loaner canoe left there for all to use.
Irwin Colorado
Warm Earth By Rebecca Gorrell
16" x 12" Oil on Panel
Weathered wood floater frame or contact for another choice.
We had a very early snow this September. The warm earth melted it almost immediately. Maroon Avenue, Crested Butte, CO
Above the Fray By Rebecca Gorrell
12" x 9" Oil on Panel
Plein Air Museum Frame, Black and Silver,
Painted at the Central City Plein Air Festival, note the mega casino-hotel in the background.
Central City, CO
Alien Shed by Rebecca Gorrell
8" x 6" Oil on panel
Weathered wood floater frame
Out the peanut lake road is this lovely shed overlooking the Magic meadows. (I couldn't make up these names if I tried, really!) The shed routinely gets graffiti'd, who knows why, and then repainted, but the graffiti alien always stays put. I love that I have no idea what the story is about it.
Peanut Lake Road, Crested Butte
Roaring Judy Bridge by Rebecca Gorrell
8" x 6" Oil on panel
Weathered wood floater frame
The Gunnison valley is verdant for southwest Colorado, primarily because so many mountain ranges drain to it. It's a great place to fish, if you're into that. Me, I like to paint the waterways in all seasons.
Jack's Cabin, Colorado (Midway between Almont and Crested Butte South
Brush Creek #1 by Rebecca Gorrell
12" x 9" Acrylic on Panel
Black Plein air frame 3"
Crested Butte, CO