Postcards From A Mythical Childhood

Becky comes from an artistic and literary background. She studied art in the early seventies but got diverted by literature and, latterly, the social development of adolescents.

The research undertaken as part of her MA reconnected her to her own adolescence and its influences.

She is a published poet and performs her poetry. Her anthology ‘Nick’s Gift’ was published in October 2019. She runs Stanza Extravaganza spoken word event in Torquay Devon and is a member of Torbay Culture Board. Highly commended for “Last offices’ Torbay Poetry Festival National Competition 2018
 

‘The anchorhold – 1971’ was selected and sold at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021

 

Her work “Bedroom shrine to the virgin of the rocks” was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017 and highly recommended alternative or mixed media in the show - Torbay Guild of Artists 2018.

 

Also, Best alternative/mixed media and best painting in show for ‘St Peter Chanel of the Staffroom’ Torbay Guild of Artists 2018

 

‘Dorothy chasing rainbows’ has been selected best acrylic painting in the show – Torbay Guild of Artists Exhibition 2021

 

‘I am not a romantic’ selected by SWAc Open Exhibition 2021

 

Becky is a UNESCO English Riviera Ambassador Artist

Themes:

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• Influence of religious dogma on childhood, adolescence and feminism and an emerging female artist in the Seventies

 

• Referencing the objects, places and influences in Becky’s past including rock music and popular culture

 

 

• Rituals, past and present, that influence the future

 

Becky paints mainly in acrylic but she also uses mixed media including parts of her original childhood and art student works which are collaged into paintings. Works with a reference to religious iconography replicate the paintings in convent schools. Becky sometimes includes works by her father and children to show the artistic tradition that runs through her family.

 

The work is triptych of 3 postcard size photographic images of me as a small child taken in Brixham. The original images were taken on Brixham Harbourside and Mansands Beach Brixham in the late 1950s and 1960s. I have collaged these photographs with images of classical gods and imagery. The landscape where we spent our childhood seems unchanged but it holds myth and legends that have migrated through the western world, changing our perception of our small world as we mature and understand the fragility of all we hold and love. As climate change increases idyllic childhoods, landscapes and our lives become like 'Ozmandias of Egypt' - 'lone and level sands stretched far'

Collaged Photographic Images

19x14cm per piece

 

Framed