Born in Dallas, Texas, Becky Texas runs in her blood and, as no surprise, throughout her work.

Combining her love for the Rodeo and her penchant for vibrant colors, Becky describes her paintings as having a “Texas flair.” Although she began as an abstract artist, she has recently headed into an impressionistic interpretation of the Wild West. 

 

As a former Interior Designer, Becky has always had a deep love for color. After working for several years at the international architecture firm, HKS, Inc., she left her beloved job to take on the role of a lifetime - stay at home mom. Despite her departure from the workplace, Becky continued in her creative practice, beginning by taking photographs of her son with what she liked to call her “Big Girl Camera” and posting them alongside emotional essays on her family’s blog. When her oldest was in preschool, she began her first creative business, Little Branches, that combined her love of color and words into one: handprinted wooden signs. 

 

A commodity at the time, Becky’s signs flew off the virtual shelves of her online shop. They were sold in several stores including local favorites, Weir’s Furniture Country Store and Bradbury Lane. But as with many good things, Little Branches closed their doors after Becky had her youngest son and big box stores began selling reproductions of hundreds of signs. 

 

Even after closing up shop, Becky continued to create with her hands. She dabbled in watercolor lettering, paper arts, and mixed media, but she always came back to the paint brush. In the spring of 2019, she sold her first collection of paintings. In 2020 she completed her first commission and being in the middle of a world-wide pandemic, her artwork took off. (View a snapshot of her body of work here.)

 

Becky’s paintings are filled with a variety of materials - fluid acrylics, pencil marks, ink, and pastels. Layer after layer, she builds a wellspring of color while portraying the sense that something more must be just beneath the surface. Whether you say, “gosh, I feel like I've been there,” or simply stand captivated by the movement of color, Becky’s hope is that you’ll find yourself in her work somewhere too. 

 

“When I get done with a painting, step back and subsequently identify with the subject, I know I’ve done something special," Becky writes. "This often surprises me as much as it does the viewer. I don’t set out to paint myself - or anyone else, for that matter. It just sort of happens. And that’s the magic of it all.”

 

Currently Becky lives in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas with her high school sweetheart, Jeff, and their three quickly-growing children. She works in what she affectionally calls her “Make-it-Work Studio” that just so happens to be in the back of her kids’ upstairs playroom. Her work can be viewed publicly at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County in McKinney. She is an advocate for child abuse victims, as she is one herself. You can read more of that story here and here.