RIX-MEO, Rebecca

1973 - ?

Rebecca Lucia Rix-Meo was born at Chelmsford, Essex in March 1973, daughter of Patrick M. Meo (1941-) and his wife Jennifer M. Sayer (1942-), who married at Maldon, Essex in 1964 and is the great-great-granddaughter of Gaetano Meo (15 December 1849–16 January 1925), the Italian-British artist, mosaicist and craftsman associated with the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Rebecca Rix-Meo studied at Blackpool & The Fylde College 1990–1994 for a Higher National Diploma, botanical illustration and in natural history and scientific illustration and later in botanical art. Whilst her practice is distinctly contemporary, it continues a family legacy of craftsmanship through historic decorative techniques. Rebecca is an artist specialising in Bas-relief plaster art with bare texture or polychrome finishing, working with plaster, earth, botanical elements, and found organic forms, she creates pieces that feel both unearthed and preserved rooted in the surrounding landscape, from Essex estuary mudflats to Suffolk hedgerows. Her practice is shaped by natural processes such as erosion, growth, decay, and weathering. She also creates historical interior works inspired by the faded grandeur of country houses, palaces, sacred spaces, and architectural fragments. Drawing upon decorative plasterwork, aged surfaces, and imagined histories, these pieces evoke the atmosphere of lost interiors and forgotten rooms. Rix-Meo also teaches her artform at the Royal Horticultural Society and National Trust sites, Cambridge University botanic garden and venues throughout the UK and in 2026 was a finalist in the David Shepherd wildlife of the year awards for her work with the Common Buzzard. Rebecca now works out of her studio in Suffolk and exhibits nationally and her historical interiors work can be found at the Red Dot Gallery-Holt.
Websites: https://rebeccarixmeoart.com
https://hopecottagebotanicalarts.co.uk

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