STUDIO 'M'

Rebecca J. Becker

THE PROSPECT GALLERY
42 Prospect Street
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
Phone: (479) 253-5012

”I know it's not exactly conventional, but I received most of my education as an artist while working as an artists' model at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago while in graduate school.  Being motionless for 8 hours a day, I absorbed an amazing education from great teachers who shared their knowledge and experience. Later, I taught at the school – a wonderful, indescribable time.”

A film director once remarked that he admired a certain actor’s work because he could tell the character had a life ‘beyond the frame.’ In paintings, that’s the quality that delights me. A feeling that I’m glimpsing one moment, one breath of life – that the world on canvas or paper continues beyond the frame.

" Pastels, for me, are the ideal medium for capturing that moment. They glow with life, and yet they allow that captured moment to exist in breathless suspension for decades – even centuries – after that moment ends. Nothing gets me as close to the story as pastels: I’m not distanced by a brush. It’s just my fingers and the colors, nothing in between.”