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Becky Joy is best known for her vibrant landscapes that so
accurately capture glowing light and shadow. Her paintings burst with abundant colors and powerful, thick textures.
Painting in the historic Plein Air style, she accurately creates what she sees and feels in her creative trips to the open air. Viewing her work
brings every sense to life, creating an expectation of the kiss of a mountain breeze, the scent of mesquite and sage in an oncoming storm or the visual explosion of color in the setting sun’s
vast sky. The impulse is to reach out and touch her paintings, to become a part of the scene she has created in oil.
Becky was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. After
moving to Arizona in 1993, Becky attended classes and workshops at the Scottsdale Artist’s School, then began to hike and paint in the desert that surrounds her home. She has been published in Art of the American West and in 2001 was chosen as the cover and poster artist for Hidden in the Hills Artists Directory. 2003 brought
Becky the Southwest Art Magazine Award at the annual Phippen Art Show in Prescott. Becky is a juried member of the American Academy of Women artists.
She now teaches workshops and continues to exhibit and have one woman shows of her paintings in galleries and shows in California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. |
