Receive Joy Painting

Becky is a professional artist based out of Portland, Oregon. While creativity abounded throughout childhood and in school, her artistic expression took a backseat to the business of life. Before picking up a paintbrush again in her mid 30s, she was a longtime college educator and counseling instructor working with marginalized communities, burnt out, and far removed from creative spaces. When she followed the whispers and invited art back into her life as a daily practice, everything changed. She is now an “accidental” intuitive abstract painter, largely self taught, and still (un)learning. With messages of affirmation and reminders of resilience, her colorful and bold art tells her story as a recovering perfectionist, with learned vulnerability, and untethered radical joy. ⁣ She enjoys going inward and creating for hours alone in her studio (with the music blasting and the dancing in full effect), but her sweet spot is making art in community and curating inclusive workshops and retreats for others to do the same. She believes that we’re all artists, that art is healing, and that creating in community can be transformative. Her classes integrate a mind, body, and soul approach to intuitive painting. She invites the broken, the shiny, the rebels, and the different to join her little island of misfit artists and share their own stories through art and play.