Becky Joy is best known for her vibrant landscapes that so accurately capture glowing light and shadow. Her paintings burst with abundant colors and powerful, thick textures. Painting in the historic Plein Air style, she accurately creates what she sees and feels in her creative trips to the open air and painting from life. Viewing her work brings every sense to life, creating an expectation of the kiss of a mountain breeze, the scent of mesquite and sage in an oncoming storm. The taste of salt water on the tongue, or the visual explosion of color in the setting sun’s vast sky. The impulse is to reach out and touch her paintings, to become a part of the scene she has created in oil. True to her desire for painting from life, Becky also paints luscious and colorful still lifes.

Born and raised in Portland, OR, Becky Joy raised her family there. During this time Becky took art classes at the local college and tried several different art forms. After moving to Arizona in 1993, Becky attended classes and workshops at the Scottsdale Artist’s School then began to hike and paint in the desert that surrounds her home. Becky juried into Women Artists of the West in 1997. In the summer of 1998, she was included in a show at the Phippen Museum in Prescott, AZ called Painters of the American Desert. She has been published in Art of the American West and in 2001 was chosen as the cover and poster artist for Hidden in the Hills Artists Directory. Becky was featured in an article in the Feb 2006 issue of Southwest Art Magazine. Three of her works were purchased by the Kierland Resort and Spa. Her paintings have also been collected by American Equity Insurance, Banner Hospital and Pioneer Home Bank. 2003 brought Becky the Southwest Art Magazine Award at the annual Phippen Art Show in Prescott. Becky is a juried member of the American Academy of Women Artists. She now teaches workshops and continues to exhibit and have one woman shows of her paintings in galleries and shows in CA, CO, UT, AZ and NM.