Anne Becker

Anne Becker’s paintings have been described as colorful, simplified, and expressive of a deep love of nature. She navigates between two distinct approaches—one grounded in observation and photography, and the other emerging purely from instinct and imagination. In her creative process, she responds intuitively to the painting’s needs, allowing herself to deviate from reality while exploring marks, colors, and shapes that deepen the expression of the desired feeling.

Typically beginning with representational forms, Anne quickly moves toward abstraction, finding that each approach informs and enriches the other. In her landscapes, she seeks to deconstruct and reinterpret chaotic scenes, capturing the moods and emotions they evoke. By liberating herself from purely representational constraints, she allows the qualities of materials, color, line, and shape to convey her personal response to a place or experience in nature. Her works often build up dozens of layers, each adding history and texture, making the layering itself an essential part of her artistic journey.

The interplay between figurative and abstract expression is central to Anne’s artistic identity. Rather than presenting a contradiction, this duality forms a symbiotic relationship: starting with representational ideas and then departing from them gives her total freedom to employ any color, mark, or shape that expresses what the subject feels like to her.