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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.
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