Gothic Scenes: The Art Portfolio of Rebecca Chaperon
Rebecca Chaperon is an artist based in Vancouver, BC, who specializes in dreamy, gothic scenes and narrative illustrations. The artist works in a lush, painterly style with deeply saturated hues of green, blue, and pink.
I really enjoy the somewhat gestural quality of Rebecca’s painting style, and the way the artist adjusts her technique to be more -- or less -- detailed when a figure or scene demands it. The resulting work contains moments of strict volume and hard geometric edges, interspersed with ghostly, melting figures that leave the viewer with a sense of something uncanny.
Rebecca's Imprint series on her art portfolio website
Rebecca’s figures – usually alone, and usually female – seem to reference and represent a witchy attitude. Her lone figures, while surrounded by bizarre wilderness and crystalline forms, seem confident and somehow powerful. Though the artist’s paintings lean into the paranormal and the supernatural, her “characters” have a refreshing sense of agency therein.
