Collection: Rebecca Fortin
Rebecca Fortin is a Canadian-born visual artist residing in rural Whitby (Ashburn), Ontario. Influenced by her childhood growing up on farms in southwestern Ontario (Stratford, Wellesley, and Wingham) — she seeks to foster a deep connection between people, plants and nature through drawing, painting, photography and other creative processes. A current focus is creating botanical castings: positive-relief wall frescos using botanicals pressed in wet clay and set with plaster.
Her studio is located on 6-acres of environmentally sensitive lands situated in the Greenbelt and Oak Ridges Moraine. Fortin creates living art by growing herbs and botanicals, many that are used as natural pigments or incorporated into her artwork directly. She is also rehabilitating forested areas on her property by planting indigenous and endangered plants, flowers and trees.
Rebecca is a graduate of the Drawing & Painting program at the Haliburton School of Art + Design (2022). Her artwork and academic success awarded her two program awards. Rebecca’s work has been shown in a variety of locations across Ontario and are held in private and corporate collections. Selected exhibitions include: Colborne Street Gallery in 2024 (Fenelon Falls), Station Gallery’s 2023-24 Annual Juried Exhibition (Whitby), Latcham Art Centre’s 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition (Stouffville), and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery’s 2014 RMG Exposed - Juried Photography Auction (Oshawa).
At RMG Exposed, her photograph, Foggiest Notion, was awarded one of the top 10 finalists. Rebecca’s botanical cast artwork, Wildflowers on Blue, in 2024 won honourable mention at Ontario Tech University’s The Art of Sustainability Juried Exhibition and was curated into the Pelham Art Festival’s online gallery for Mixed Media. Subsequently, the artwork was purchased by a private collector at Preston Gallery.
She is also a 2023 recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance grant.
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