Rebecca Thomson-Weissbort
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I came to Britain's Wye Valley in 2004 with my late husband, artist George Weissbort. Having grown up in rural Tennessee, I was seeking a retreat in the countryside where I could keep bees and chickens, grow vegetables and paint.
I have a great love for colour, nature and travel.
In my early 20s, I was inspired by Rudolf Steiner's work and philosophy. After attending a workshop, I wanted to find out more about his approach to colour and I made further studies, first in upstate New York and then with Beppa Assenza in Switzerland.
With my background as a teacher of special needs, I was searching for a way to use colour in my work with adults and children.
After finishing studies in Switzerland, I was invited to lecture, exhibit and teach in Sussex and London. Here I met my husband, George, who already was a very respected artist.
On moving to the Wye Valley, I put down my brushes and took on the roles of project manager, interior designer, landscape artist, and general support to my husband's work.
Now, after many years, I have resumed my own painting.
I find it rewarding and hugely useful to study colour to change the quality of my experience of reality. I hope to really enter into Steiner's thought that, 'If you realise that art always has a relation to the spirit, you will understand that both in creating and appreciating it, art is something through which one enters the spiritual world'.
'For colour is one of the most rapturous truths that can be revealed to man'.
Harold Speed
I have a great love for colour, nature and travel.
In my early 20s, I was inspired by Rudolf Steiner's work and philosophy. After attending a workshop, I wanted to find out more about his approach to colour and I made further studies, first in upstate New York and then with Beppa Assenza in Switzerland.
With my background as a teacher of special needs, I was searching for a way to use colour in my work with adults and children.
After finishing studies in Switzerland, I was invited to lecture, exhibit and teach in Sussex and London. Here I met my husband, George, who already was a very respected artist.
On moving to the Wye Valley, I put down my brushes and took on the roles of project manager, interior designer, landscape artist, and general support to my husband's work.
Now, after many years, I have resumed my own painting.
I find it rewarding and hugely useful to study colour to change the quality of my experience of reality. I hope to really enter into Steiner's thought that, 'If you realise that art always has a relation to the spirit, you will understand that both in creating and appreciating it, art is something through which one enters the spiritual world'.
'For colour is one of the most rapturous truths that can be revealed to man'.
Harold Speed
