In Rebecca Doughty’s miniature paintings, a cast of animal characters, reminiscent of the companions of childhood, navigate the comedies and tragedies of life’s journeys. The animals tell psychologically charged stories through subtle gestures, or through the triangulating gazes that travel between the characters, their maker, and the viewer.

Doughty’s deceptively simple images, with their layered and scraped surfaces and spare line drawings, create tiny worlds with use of a limited palette, materials, and intimate scale.

Of this most recent work she says: "I wanted to tighten the limits further still, to see what kinds of dramas could take place within the tiny spaces, focusing on points of contact between the characters. I find within these choices there’s a mine of expressive possibilities. As I keep making marks, reducing the complex to simple, the stories emerge through filters of memory and imagination. Change a mark, ever so slightly, and there's another story.”

Rebecca’s work has been exhibited widely, including The Drawing Center in New York, The Boston Drawing Project, DeCordova Museum, Rose Art Museum, and the Courthouse Gallery in Ireland. She has received fellowships from Ucross Foundation, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and awards from The A.R.T Fund, The Blanche Colman Foundation, and the International Association of Art Critics, Boston. Her work is in the permanent collections of DeCordova Museum, Simmons College, Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and private collections in the US, UK, Mexico and Japan. She is also the author and illustrator of numerous books for children.