Abstract Expressionism:
All her current collections of work are created using layers of primarily oil and cold wax on cradled wood panels. Sobin considers her work as mixed media, as many techniques and mediums are combined to create her abstract-expressive paintings. Sobin has participated in many group and juried shows and is represented by multiple galleries across the western states.

Place-Centric Photography:
Mostly known for her abstract-expressionistic mixed-media paintings, Rebecca has an ancestral affiliation with photography. Her father, who was never without his camera, gifted her one of his when she was fourteen years old. Photography has always informed her work in oil and cold wax, mineral paints, and watercolor. Even Rebecca’s first solo art show many years back, was a series of “place-based” photos, documenting her move from the Rocky Mountains to the Sonoran Desert and back.

The way Rebecca sees a composition, shadows, and patterns through the lens, gives a sense of the ambiance, light and identity of place. It’s this place-centric work, which has directly informed her palette, or given the impression of subject matter — even in the abstract.

Photography has been a direct connection to her ancestral creativity and to a specific place in time, as well as the muse to her painted works. It is also a window into her world view.

Most of Rebecca’s digital photographs are taken with her Olympus mirrorless camera with minimal editing, so that the viewer has a window into her sense of place. These days, that sense of place is in western Montana. Here is has just enjoyed her first winter in her new home and the experience of light, shadows, flora, and fauna in the environment of her chosen landscape. Photos of the resident Great-Horned Owl staring back at her, her puppy Roisin seeing her first snow, a frosted branch, or the rusted hinge on the root cellar door are an exploration of her new world view.

Generally enamored of black and white images, Rebecca has been using metallic and pearlized papers, as well as prints on aluminum, to lend a luminescence to the shadow and light of her work.