Rebecca was born in Plymouth, Devon . She grew up in Fowey, Cornwall, and then near Tavistock, Devon. After a Foundation course at Plymouth College of Art and Design, she studied sculpture at Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology, Cheltenham, for three years (1982-85) gaining a first class honours degree. She exhibited with The Nicholas Treadwell Gallery in Kent and Bradford for some years, where her work was shown at art fairs both in this country and Europe.

She returned to the West Country in 1987, and now lives and works on Bodmin moor in Cornwall, with her husband and two children. She has exhibited widely in England, has had several one person shows, and her work is represented in select galleries in Devon and Cornwall. In March 2000 she won the Black Swan painting prize, in Frome, Somerset.