Rebecca Sira Studio

painting

  • Wall-mounted assemblage of light blue painted wood, with a weathered branch capped in orange resting across the top and a small oak gall hanging by black thread over a hand-painted blue target.

    what’s on hand

    Three assemblages made for Oregon City’ Art Commission’s 6×6 show, June 2025. Each piece is 6×6 inches, built entirely from what I already had – found wood, stone, string, wool felt, char. One holds an oak gall on a string above a hand-painted target. Pull it back and let it fall. The satisfying plonk sound…

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  • Grid of nine abstract acrylic paintings digitally enhanced, in a mix of red, teal, orange, and pink palettes with organic shapes and gestural brushwork.

    sensory echoes

    A collection of older acrylic paintings revisited through digital tools – some altered during an early exploration of decentralized platforms for sharing artwork, others reworked using Studio Artist’s procedural filters. The originals stay intact; what changes is contrast, color relationships, and composition, tested to see what digital layering could add to work already finished. Testing…

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  • Untangled installation at Portland International Airport, panels lit in shifting rainbow LED color

    untangled

    Nine hollow-core doors turned canvas, suspended mid-air and lit with LED color that shifted every minute on a computer program – technology new enough at the time that the panels stayed vivid even in daylight. Untangled was my answer to a single prompt: velocity. To me, velocity is speed and direction – whether life is…

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  • Watercolor landscape painting of Buachaille Etive Mòr in Glencoe, Scotland, with a foreground of red-toned rocky terrain leading to a grassy slope and the mountain's peak against pale sky.

    postcards to myself

    A series of over 100 watercolor landscape paintings of Scotland, ranging from 4×6″ to 5×7″, begun Labor Day 2014 as part of the 100 Day Project with The Great Discontent and Elle Luna. Worked from photographs of places I hadn’t yet visited, painting each one became a way of researching the place itself – its…

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  • Encaustic painting of two red Indian paintbrush flowers with detailed linework against a warm, hazy ground.

    encaustic flora

    Encaustic paintings made between about 2008 and 2012, the years I kept bees and started using beeswax as more than just an interest in nature – as a working material. Encaustic is an ancient technique, heated beeswax mixed with pigment and damar resin, dating back over 2,000 years, and I came to it after SEE,…

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