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her workspace
By: Nicole Thompson
T
he light in Rebecca Pierson’s
studio shifts gently throughout
the day, moving across sketchbooks,
graphite pencils, and carefully
arranged stems gathered from walks
along the coast near St. George Island.
Her workspace feels layered and
lived-in, 昀椀lled with potted greenery,
pressed 昀氀owers, coastal paintings, and
shelves lined with well-worn art books
collected over years of illustrating.
Rebeca Pierson
SEASIDE ATELIER
Pierson grew up on a farm in the midSouth, where creativity and nature
became inseparable early in life. She
has been drawing for as long as she
can remember, often sketching plants,
barns, and wild昀氀owers before she fully
understood what it meant to become
an artist. After graduating from art
school, she built a career as a freelance
illustrator, developing a signature style
rooted in graphite and colored pencil.
Today, her work captures the quiet elegance of native 昀氀owers and coastal botanicals, blending precision, softness,
and the calming in昀氀uence of the shoreline just outside her studio window.
Illustrated Self-Portrait
By Rebecca Pierson
“My workspace mirrors
my art: coastal, calm,
and rooted in nature.”
