Rebel Romeo

Gallery

Confessions in plaster,
ink and rain.

Each piece starts as words — a post on an anonymous archive — and travels through stencil, spray and plaster until it can stand on a wall of its own. This is the work, hung in the order it wants to be read.

Chapter I

The Originals

3 works
Never Settle — original canvas. Black stencilled poem on white Venetian plaster with two magenta flamingos forming a heart.

Original — available as print

Never Settle

A quiet declaration titled “Search for her”, posted to @wordsmith.a.r in July 2017. It escaped the feed as raw graffiti, stencilled in defiance across concrete — then was reworked into a textured canvas using Venetian plaster, spray paint and layered stencil work for the Worthing Art Festival.

Medium — Venetian plaster, aerosol, stencil on canvas
Origin — “Search for her”, 25 July 2017
Street — Worthing, post-2017
Canvas — July 2024, Worthing Art Festival

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Reflections in the Rain — original canvas. Stencilled poem over blue-green washed pigment and embedded steel mesh.

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Reflections in the Rain

Unlike the others, this piece never lived as graffiti — but its spirit is the same. It began as a delicate post titled “A wish” in December 2016, the earliest seed of the three. It blossomed nine years later as a layered studio work of Venetian plaster, fading pigments and rain-washed textures for the CTRL ALT CREATE collection. It holds space for memory, erosion, and soft persistence.

Medium — Venetian plaster, fading pigments, mesh, canvas
Origin — “A wish”, 12 December 2016
Canvas — June 2025, CTRL ALT CREATE

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She Did Not Know — original work. White stencilled poem and a dancing figure holding an umbrella on a green utility-cabinet painting.

Original — the emotional core

She Did Not Know

A poem. A wall. A memory made visible. First shared quietly as “🌼 and the rain” in January 2017, it took physical shape that April as stencil graffiti — anonymous, intimate, fleeting. The street version disappeared, but the message endured, reimagined for the CTRL ALT CREATE exhibition. It remains the emotional core of Rebel Romeo.

Medium — stencil & mixed media
Origin — “🌼 and the rain”, 8 January 2017
Street — April 2017, since lost
Canvas — June 2025, CTRL ALT CREATE

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Chapter II

The Street

2017 — ongoing

The first gallery had no opening hours. Stencilled phrases of longing and hope, painted in the early hours while the town was still — found, photographed and shared by strangers under #rebelromeo.

The original She Did Not Know stencil sprayed in white on a green electrical box, photographed in evening light, 2017
She Did Not Know — the original box, Worthing, 2017.
Never Settle stencil on a weathered white wall above two council wheelie bins, Worthing
Never Settle — in situ, opposite the Rose & Crown. Public photo, #rebelromeo.
The She Did Not Know painted cabinet standing outside the CTRL ALT CREATE gallery window
The reworked cabinet outside CTRL ALT CREATE, Worthing, 2025.
Never Settle canvas displayed in a gallery window, reading: let's reset the system and create something
Never Settle in the gallery window — from wall to white cube.
Rebel against indifference. Risk your heart — for the love you seek is only for the brave.
Street piece, Worthing — shared via #rebelromeo
Chapter III

The Collections

8 bodies of work

Divine Goddess — digital painting

Studies in light, devotion and the divine feminine. Painted digitally, slowly — each one a quiet act of worship.

Persephone in the Morning — digital painting of a kneeling figure in morning light

Persephone in the Morning

Digital painting — fine-art print available
Freya in the Summer — digital painting of a figure in warm summer light

Freya in the Summer

Digital painting — fine-art print available
Flora and her Plants — digital painting of a seated figure surrounded by house plants

Flora and her Plants

Digital painting — fine-art print available

Word art — the sealed letters

Letters to Juliet — collection cover with wax rose seal

Letters to Juliet

2016–2018 — words for a lost love
Meditations — collection cover with wax rose seal

Meditations

Reflections on being alive
Altered Art — collection cover with wax rose seal

Altered Art

Found things, made otherwise

The hand — studio & sketchbook

Open sketchbook with two pencil portrait studies of women's faces
Pencil art & sketch work — where every piece still begins.
Photography — a rainbow-painted litter bin in front of bright orange and blue seafront shutters
Photography — colour found on the seafront.
2024–2025 studio work — the She Did Not Know cabinet piece drying outdoors on decking
2024–2025 studio work — pieces in progress.
Digital painting reimagining the Never Settle wall with bins and a wrought-iron gate
The wall, remembered — digital painting of the Montague Street site.

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The originals travel.
The prints stay with you.

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