Marie H. Becker: Biophilia

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Marie H. Becker "Royalties Please!," 2019

oil on board, 8" x 8"

Come to the opening of "Biophilia!" For “the passionate love of life and all that is alive” we invite you to come and help endangered animals with the purchase of a one-of-a-kind artwork: 50% of each painting will be donated to Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC).

Marie H. Becker paints her beloved themes with an edgy sense of humour: Her acute insight into environmental detriment surprisingly juxtaposed by a bright-coloured splash of belief that everything alive shares a unifying commonality.

'Diverse influences inform my art. From my love of the frescoes of Giotto and early Renaissance art, to folk art, colour field paintings, embroidery, and textiles. These might all find their way into my imagination and paintings: This rich historic archive leaves me free to pull together polar images that yield modern and occasionally wry messages', Marie shared with us.

A clever show - curated and designed in the most unexpected way! Come and chat with Marie Becker as she will be in attendance on August 17 from 12 - 5 PM - her spirit and passion for the life we live is infectious.

Nature is allowed to play in her pieces, always with a wry message for us: Grosbeaks or parrots might stud the sky with their colours, sheep will sometimes fly and cows will graze in flowered Hungarian meadows... I live in the Pacific Northwest in Vancouver, BC, shared Marie with us. 'My origins are Long Island, New York, moving upstate to Syracuse to begin my peregrinations. Since then I have lived in Berkeley and San Francisco, Rome, the Loire Valley, Toronto, and Hungary, drawing and painting along the way. The need for roots is a theme I explore in my BC paintings with their scenes depicting the way of life here'.