REBECCA HOLOPTER
WATERCOLOR & MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Featured Collections
2025
A collection honoring the beauty of age, intuition, and impact.
Watercolor portraits celebrating iconic women over 60— visionaries, artists, and sages—painted with reverence, color, and care. The Way She Knows challenges the myth that beauty belongs to youth, instead inviting us to witness the wisdom and radiance etched into the faces of women who’ve lived fully and led boldly.
Solo show hosted at Forager Crafts, a creative studio and gallery space in Frogtown dedicated to hands-on artmaking and community connection.
The Way She Knows
2020
A collection of abstract paintings, emerging from uncertain times. Escaping into excess for relief joy comfort & connection.
Escape in Excess
2016-Present
A collection of portraits spanning 10 years. Some on canvas, some with embroidery, some in process.
Portraits
2020
Witch Women, the first group show at Thank You For Asking, features 8 female artists and visually embodies the spirit of this unique gallery. The show was born out of a desire for connection and trust among women, to heal wounds from the past, and to rebuild the coven by listening to eternal female intuition. Each artist chosen for this show presents work that has a distinct, vibrant, and empowered feminine energy. Curated by and featuring works from Jade Wolf and Rebecca Holopter, Witch Women also features artists Deedee Cheriel, Nikki McCauley, Amanda Faber, Kim Baise, Samantha Wilson, and Jade-Snow Carroll.
Witch Women
2018
A collection of portraits from the daily painting practice in 2016 & 2017 and a piece made specifically for the show. Castor Troy and Sean Archer (characters from Face Off) with embroidered flowers representing their undeniable connection.
Face Off
2015-2017
A collection of paintings from a daily drawing and painting practice. Themes changing every month.
Daily Practice
2025
A live collaboration with Entertainment Weekly and photographer Johnny Marlowe at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Over 200 photographs of actors, directors, and producers hand-embellished across two days. Each piece unique, each one made by hand using drawing, paint, pastels, typewriter, collage, embroidery, jeweled embellishments, and hand-painted sticker dots applied directly onto portrait prints of the talent promoting their films and series.
Comic Con - EW Photo Suite
ABOUT
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ABOUT 〰️
L.A. based, Midwestern at heart, Rebecca Holopter is a painter shaped by a Missouri upbringing where handmade things carry meaning and ingenuity is born from grit and resiliency. She carries that spirit into a practice rooted in watercolor and enriched by acrylic, pastel, and embroidery, moving between expressive abstraction and intimate portraiture with equal devotion and equal joy.
Her work lives in two worlds that feel, at first, like opposites: the expansive freedom of abstraction and the intimate truth of portraiture. In her abstract work, Rebecca uses the canvas as emotional territory, a place to externalize what lives inside, and to push past self-judgment into something wilder and more honest. Her 2020 self-released collection Escape in Excess captured this perfectly, offering color and abundance as refuge during a time of collective uncertainty.
After college, life pulled her away from her practice. In 2015, she found her way back through discipline and play, committing to a drawing a day for a year, then a painting a day for two more. Those three years took her practice to Italy, to airport terminals, and on more than a few bad dates she escaped early to go paint a panda. The practice changed her life. It led to her first solo portrait show at Makers Mess Gallery in Los Angeles, group exhibition work at Thank You For Asking Gallery, and eventually to teaching watercolor, a role she continues to hold at a local Los Angeles studio, sharing with students the same belief her aunt once gave her: that it only takes practice.
Her portraiture work is where her heart is most visible. Rebecca is drawn, in particular, to painting senior women (their skin, their texture, their earned complexity) with reverence and care. Her most recent solo exhibition, The Way She Knows, held at Forager Crafts Gallery in Los Angeles' Frogtown neighborhood, was a celebration of women over 60: visionaries, artists, and sages painted in watercolor as an act of both admiration and resistance. Rebecca sees this work as a quiet but deliberate pushback against a culture that tries to diminish women at the very moment they come into their full power.
Her creative path began early, with a lesson she has never forgotten: her aunt sat her down and told her that drawing well was simply a matter of practice. That belief, that art belongs to anyone willing to show up, has shaped everything since. A high school teacher reinforced it, pushing her to paint large and fast, and helping her earn a place at the Missouri Fine Arts Academy and a scholarship to Missouri State University.