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ARTIST'S STATEMENT AND BIO
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An award-winning artist, Becky Way has been painting in pastel since 1978. She is currently represented by House Gallery in Oklahoma City and The Blue Pig Gallery in Palisades, Colorado.
Way draws inspiration for her more impressionistic landscapes from her travels through the United States, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, as well as local adventures. Objects found in Way's stilllifes are often favorite family antiques or borrowed objects that have caught her eye. Copper is a favorite subject because of the individuality of each piece. Most of her pastel paintings are painted with Ludwig Pastels on Wallis paper. Way teaches painting and drawing workshops in Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas.
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Way draws and paints every day in her studio located at Sundance Airpark in Oklahoma City; she is also a pilot and enjoys flying with her husband (also a pilot) to small airports nearby (and not so nearby) to draw and take photographs of interesting places and people which often show up in her paintings. Riley and Sophie, her two rescued German Shepherd companions, go to the studio with her almost every day.
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She teaches her students that it is important to draw every day, either in a sketchbook, or even on the back of an envelope or any scratch piece of paper – to enjoy the process of seeing and drawing. She says the purpose of drawing or painting is not to create a work of art, but to thoroughly study a subject and above all to enjoy the process. |
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Becky's Plane
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Way's interpretation of classical still life subject matter is often reminiscent of the lost edges and shadowed backgrounds of the 19th century Dutch masters but with an added brush of pure color and luminous lights made possible by modern pigments and mediums. |
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"Jacob's hand", Conte on Canson
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She slowly builds shapes into subtle volume, playing one shape against another, sometimes anchoring a quiet but massive dark shape with a tiny, bright berry or petal left to catch the light in the foreground. Her reflective surfaces are complex pieces of color that reflect a world of color and form.
Way's landscapes are more expressive, finding eloquent shapes and strong patterns in land and atmosphere. Colors are stronger, often abstracted, and the overall effect is somewhere South of impressionistic, and North of true abstract. The combination is strongly evocative, seeking not to record a perfect rendering, but to elicit a response to the elements in the landscape -- rhythm, serenity, broken pieces of a puzzle, a pattern of growing things, a strong silhouette of a mesa, or the relentless path of a river. |
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