Working with plaster, earth, botanical elements, and found organic forms, she creates pieces that feel both unearthed and preserved, capturing fragile moments that might otherwise disappear.

Rooted in the surrounding landscape, from Essex estuary mudflats to Suffolk hedgerows, her practice is shaped by natural processes such as erosion, growth, decay, and weathering.

Alongside these themes, Rix-Meo creates historical interior works inspired by the faded grandeur of country houses, palaces, sacred spaces, and architectural fragments. Drawing upon decorative plasterwork, aged surfaces, and imagined histories, these pieces evoke the atmosphere of lost interiors and forgotten rooms.

Through casting, Rix-Meo preserves delicate and transient forms. Often executed outside using mud and sand as a canvas —wings, animal tracks, seed heads, fragments of plant life, and architectural impressions—holding them in a state between presence and absence.

Rix-Meo’s work invites a slower way of looking—an attention to detail, material, and the quiet beauty of what remains.

Trained in natural history and scientific illustration and later Botanical art Rix-Meo now works out of her studio in Suffolk, she exhibits nationally and her historical interiors work can be found at The Red Dot Gallery, Holt.

Rebecca Rix-Meo is the great-great-granddaughter of Gaetano Meo (1849–1925), the Italian-British artist, mosaicist and craftsman associated with the Pre-Raphaelite circle. While her practice is distinctly contemporary, it continues a family legacy of craftsmanship through historic decorative techniques.

In 2026 Rix-Meo is a finalist in the David Shepherd wildlife of the year awards for her work with the Common Buzzard. 

Rix-Meo also teaches her artform at RHS and National trust sites, Cambridge university botanic garden and venues throughout the UK.