When you select art pieces for your home you are looking for something that you will love seeing every day. Something you can fall in love with again and again as your soul finds something in the colours, shapes, textures and lines that feels warm and exciting and real. You know to take this art home and hang it on your wall will bring a lasting smile.
Hi, I’m Becky. My paintings are intended as a visual song, deliberately layered and embracing the opposites found in our lives and surroundings as well as the media I use.
About Me
Hi, my name is Becky and I am a painter of abstract artworks that light me up.
I live, love and work in Perth, Western Australia with my husband, the youngest of our five children and our family cats. I enjoy people, travel, a good book and great wine. I am awed by the vast open spaces and colours of the Australian landscape and the distant horizons of our coastlines. Immersing myself in these special places quietens my mind and soothes my soul.
After leaving a professional career in Conservation Science I pursued a community based art education. I now paint in my light airy studio at the bottom of our garden.
About My Artwork
My work is a response to my thoughts and feelings and I am moved by the complexity of abstract expression. The interplay between man-made objects and structures and the natural world is of great interest to me. I find it fascinating to examine the way the inevitable conflicts inform our lives and make us feel.
I use acrylics, mixed media and collage to capture the movement and essence of places I love, the quiet rhythms, and the feelings they evoke. I almost never use a brush but instead, use large non-traditional tools to paint and print along with other mixed media for drawing. I use strong, simple graphic shapes and areas of quiet to interact with soft patterns and gentle lines. To me, lines reflect the way we move through space and time. In my work, they reflect the imprints that life and the environment leave on us as well as the imprints we leave behind on the people and the world around us. I create highly textured surfaces that are designed to invite your touch.
I hope you find an artwork you would love to have in your home. Please stay in touch if you would like to know about new work.
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“abstract art is uniquely modern. it is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable”
— robert motherwell (artist)
Previous Events and Exhibitions
Finalist in Exhibitions
2023
Ellenbrook Art Awards, Finalist, Perth, Western Australia Bunbury Catholic College Art Extraordinaire, Bunbury, Western AustraliaLawley Art Auction, Finalist, Perth, Western AustraliaMelville Open Studios, Participating Artist, Perth, Western Australia,2022
City of Bayswater Art Awards, Finalist, Perth, Western Australia, City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award, Perth, Finalist, Western Australia, City of Melville Art Award, Perth, Finalist, Western Australia, Lawley Art Auction, Finalist, Perth, Western Australia,Melville Open Studios, Participating Artist, Perth, Western Australia, ‘The Reality of Abstract’, Melville Arts @ Atwell House, Finalist, Perth WA 2021
City of Bayswater Art Awards, Finalist, Perth, Western Australia, City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award, Finalist, Perth, Western AustraliaCollections
Works by Becky are held in private collections throughout metropolitan and regional Western Australia.Group Exhibitions
2023
City of Canning Art Awards, Canning, Perth, Western Australia
Kalgoorlie Boulder Art Prize, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
City of Belmont Art Awards, Perth, Western Australia
Dardanup Arts Spectacular, Dardanup, Western Australia,Gosnells Community Art Exhibition and Awards, Finalist, Perth, WA,Churchlands Senior High School P&C Art Exhibition, Perth, Western AustraliaRotary Art Sale and Exhibition, Booragoon, Perth, Western Australia,Cossack Art Awards, Karratha, Western Australia2022
Darlington Art Awards, Perth, Western Australia,City of Canning Art Awards, Canning, Perth, Western Australia,City of Belmont Art Awards, Perth, Western Australia,Rotary Art Sale and Exhibition, Booragoon, Perth, Western Australia,Churchlands Senior High School P&C Art Exhibition, Perth, Western Australia,Gosnells Community Art Exhibition and Awards, Finalist, Perth, WA,Harvey Art Society, Myalup Art Exhibition, Myalup, Western Australia2021
City of Busselton Art Awards, Busselton, Western Australia,MCAA Member Awards, Melville, Perth, Western Australia,City of Canning Art Awards, Canning, Perth, Western Australia,Rotary Art Sale and Exhibition, Booragoon, Perth, Western Australia,Community Art Exhibition Gosnells, Perth, Western Australia, City of Belmont Art Awards, Perth, Western Australia, Inland Art Prize, Leonora, Western Australia,Beverley Art Award, Beverly, Western Australia2020
Spirit of the Swan, Atwell House, Perth, Western Australia,City of Melville Art Award, Perth, Western Australia2019
Harvey Art Society, Myalup Art Exhibition, Myalup, Western Australia,SPLC Annual Art Exhibition, South Perth, Western AustraliaCity of Melville Art Award, Perth, Western Australia