Rebecca Latham

I’m pleased to share that my painting Sapling Song – Palm Warbler will debut at the Cape Cod Art Center’s 2026 SUMMER NATIONALS exhibition in Barnstable, Massachusetts, running July 17 through August 14. This piece reflects my ongoing fascination with the quiet, intimate moments found in nature – those small encounters that reveal the character of a season. The Palm Warbler has always struck me…

I’m delighted to share that my painting “Hollow Sentinel – Great Horned Owl” (Hollow Sentinel – Great Horned Owl, 8×10″, opaque & transparent watercolor on museum board, Rebecca Latham) has been selected for the Rhode Island Watercolor Society’s National Exhibition, Anything Goes. It’s always meaningful to have a piece included in a show that celebrates the range and versatility of watercolor and…

Connection, harmony, and the patterns that hold life together Walking through a prairie after a summer rain, the first thing I notice is how everything touches. The grasses lean into each other, heavy with droplets. Wildflowers bend and return, their stems supported by what grows beside them. Even the air feels connected — filled with the hum of bees, the soft call of birds hidden in the…

I’m pleased to share that my painting Hunter’s Lounge – Wolf Pup (14 x 17″, opaque and transparent watercolor on museum board) has been selected for the Artists for Conservation Festival, opening this September at VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver, BC. This piece emerged from an interest in those quieter, less overtly dramatic moments in the wild—when presence alone carries a kind of quiet…

Rebecca Latham’s luminous painting Where Sunlight Lingers – Sunflowers and Goldfinches is now on view as part of the 48th Annual Salmagundi Club Open Exhibition in New York City, running June 9 through June 26, 2026. Held at the historic Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, this juried exhibition showcases a wide range of contemporary representational art from across the country. Rebecca’s piece…

Flight, scarlet earth, and owl’s quiet wisdom Update Four brings three portraits of motion held in pause—from an owl gliding silently over prairie grasslands, a cardinal foraging amid pebbles and muted grass, to a great horned owl’s profile glowing against aged branches. Each painting captures nature’s poised energy: the hunter’s muted pursuit, the forager’s curious calm, and the sentinel’s…

Mist, gold, and a wolf’s quiet pause Update Three presents 3 portraits where light reveals hidden depths—from a chickadee poised in silver fog, a sapsucker glowing against birch, and a wolf’s luminous gaze into vast blue. Each painting uncovers subtle wonders: delicate clarity through haze, patient radiance in the trees, profound solitude, and serene endurance. These works expand the…

Glow through shadow, snow, and tropical mist Week Two brings three more portraits that trace light’s quiet dance across feather and season—from the hidden embers of a woodland warbler, to a chickadee’s brave glow amid falling snow, to the iridescent calm of a tropical tanager at rest. Each painting holds a moment where illumination reveals what the eye might otherwise miss: resilience in the…

I’m pleased to share that my painting, “Timeless Refuge – American Kestrels,” has been awarded overall Second Place in the Spokane Watercolor Society’s 2026 Exhibition. The show is currently on view at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, in the Helen South Alexander Gallery, and will continue through June 14th. This year’s exhibition was juried by Michael Holter, whose thoughtful selections…

Muted moments in feather, fur, and winter light. As the exhibition opens, I’m beginning with three paintings that trace the quiet, everyday poetry of the natural world—moments often passed by, yet rich with light, stillness, and grace. Each piece in this first week’s collection invites a slower look: the hush between a woodpecker’s tapping, the gentle pause of a foraging rabbit, the clear note…

The new exhibition, Nature’s Symphony: Portraits in Miniature – An Intimate Collection of Nature’s Jewels, will be on from May-June 2026. Centered on the quiet music of the natural world, this collection gathers small, detailed portraits that highlight the grace, resilience, and quiet presence of its wild inhabitants. Over the course of the show, new paintings will be unveiled online in curated…

I’m delighted to share that my painting Where Sunlight Lingers – Sunflowers & Goldfinches has been juried into the Salmagundi Club’s 48th Annual Open Exhibition. The show will be on view in New York City from June 9 through June 26, 2026. This piece grew out of a simple but luminous moment—sunlight resting on late-season sunflowers in my father’s garden, sunflowers turning toward the late light,…

The forest begins with a single tree. Before the canopy gathers into a living architecture, before the understory forms its soft green murmurs, before the birds choose their perches and the light learns how to fall between branches—there is one. One trunk. One root system. One quiet insistence on reaching upward. I return to that image often. The forest of one is not a contradiction; it is a…

I’m honored and deeply grateful to share that my painting Between Seasons was awarded overall 5th place in this year’s Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition. This piece holds a quiet, personal significance for me. Between Seasons grew out of that subtle, shifting moment in nature when one season gives way to another—when colors soften, edges blur, and everything feels suspended in…

The first thing that draws me to paint is often not motion, but pause — a quiet moment of connection when the world seems to breathe. In those moments, light becomes a language of its own. It slips across fur, feathers, and water with a delicacy that invites reflection. Capturing that fleeting glow is as much about emotion as it is about technique. It’s about listening to the silence that nature…

Nature offers its lessons in whispers, not fanfare — each season a soft reminder that renewal is simply part of being alive. Spring nudges buds from resting branches, summer deepens into full leaf, autumn releases with graceful color, and winter tucks everything in for thoughtful repose. These cycles aren’t upheavals; they’re a natural rhythm of refreshment, inviting us to carry that same ease…

Every time I study the natural world, I’m struck by its balance — not the balance of stillness, but of opposites coexisting in perfect rhythm. Nature holds both gentleness and power, light and shadow, stillness and motion. It’s this duality that makes it endlessly fascinating to paint. Harmony and contrast don’t compete in the wild; they shape each other, creating beauty that feels honest and…