A FULL-TIME PORTRAIT PAINTER and figurative artist, Rebecca Holton was born in Oxford to two teachers. Her father did a job swap with an Australian biologist when she was four years old, so the family upped sticks to the other side of the world for a year where she went to school in Brisbane. At the time, this was very unusual – to experience living in a different country and culture and then returning to your own – yet it instilled a strong love of travel from an early age.
The eldest of four children, creativity was very dominant in their upbringing; they played musical instruments, belonged to choirs, frequently created art with the ‘make-and-do’ box – a collection of used packets, cardboard and lids – whilst they were also members of the
