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Artist Rebecca King Hawkinson paintings have been housed in private collections in the US and abroad since 1999.  In 1998, King left high school early…

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

•2021 “Blowing Rock Women’s Show” June 2021, Martin House Gallery, Blowing Rock, NC
•2021 “Ode to Spring” May 2021, Huse Skelly Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
•2020 Pastoral Palette: Rural Spaces for the Soul, Asheville, NC
•2020 Wet Paint Sale and Group Show, Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC
•2020 “Cashiers Plein Air: Art on the Green”, Village Green, Cashiers, NC
•2020 “I SEE FRANCE,” January 2020, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, MA
•2019 “Hoof & Wing: Beyond Lascaux” November 2019, Edith Gilchrist Musuem, Montreat, NC
•2019 Floyd Biennial, Floyd Art Center, Virginia
•2018 “These Many Distant Far Horizons” Solo Show, Crossnore Gallery, Crossnore, NC
•2018 “Art on the Green” group show Village on the Green, Cashiers NC
•2017 “Finger Lakes Plein Air” group show Sonneberg Gardens, Canandaigua, NY
•2016 “Art on the Green” group show Village on the Green, Cashiers, NC
•2016 “Flora and Fauna” group show, Crossnore, NC
•2015 “Impending Spring” with two person show with Michael Hatch, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville
•2014 “Transitory Sojourn” solo show Alchemy Fine Art, Asheville, NC
•2014 “Art on the Green” group show Village on the Green, Cashiers, NC
•2014 “Mountain Maryland Plein Air 2014” group Show, Cumberland, MD
•2013 “Carmel Art Festival” group show, Carmel CA
•2013 “Mountain Maryland Plein Air 2013” group Show, Cumberland, MD
•2013 “Plein Air 757” Norfolk, VA
•2013 “Centennial Show” Crossnore Gallery, Crossnore Fine Art Gallery, Crossnore, NC
•2010 “Marianna and Other Works” The Fine Arts League Gallery, Asheville, NC
•2009 “Drawing: Foundations of Fine Art” group show, 16 Patton Fine Art, Asheville, NC
•2009 “The Lady and the Lay of the Land” solo show, The Crescent Gallery, Spartanburg, SC
•2008 “New Works” solo show, Linville Gallery, Banner Elk, NC
•2007 “La Lumeire De L’Automne” solo show, Burke Arts Council, Morganton, NC
•2007 “Artist Invitational” group show, 16 Patton Fine Art Gallery, Asheville, NC
•2007 “At Home and Abroad” solo show Crossnore Gallery, Linville, NC
•2005 “Painted Poems” solo show, Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Black Mountain, NC
•2004 “Figures, Faces and Places” solo show, Fine Arts League of Asheville, Asheville, NC
•2003 “From the River Down” solo show, Gingko Tree Gallery, Black Mountain, NC

EDUCATION Artist Rebecca King Hawkinson

-2001-2003 Fine Arts League of the Carolinas
Advanced Artistic Anatomy, Portraiture, Landscape Painting,
Adviser to Advanced Students

-1999-2002 Apprentice to Ben Long
Artistic Anatomy, Cast Drawing, Landscape Painting, Portraiture

-1998-2001 Montreat College, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Minor in Art

PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS

-2019 Floyd Quick Draw Winner, Floyd Biennial
-2016“Unstill Life” by Tom Kerr Carolina Home + Garden
-2015 “The Golden Days are Numbered” poem by Rebecca King Hawkinson, Mothers Always Write
-2014 WNC Woman: Cover Art; “The Passing” Oil on Linen 24×30
-2013 Honorable Mention “Plein Air 757”
-2012 American Art Collector: Balancing Act: Motherhood + Artmaking
-2009 WNC Woman: Vol.8 No. 10 “Blessed Day” poem by artist Rebecca King Hawkinson
-2009 WNC Woman: Painting Medium #1: 2 parts Determination, 4 parts Grit, 1 part Linseed Oil
-2009 Belle Magazine Women in Art: Rebecca N King
-2005 Smoky Mountain Living, Poetry in Paint: The Classical Artistry of Rebecca King
-2005 Finalist: Drawing Category in the Art Renewal Center’s International Salon Competition
-2004 Finalist: Landscape Category in the Art Renewal Center’s International Salon Competition