Becky Chase

Becky Chase is a Maine-based painter and illustrator. She is largely self-taught, beginning her artistic practice as a serious endeavor in 2011. Becky’s painterly works are mainly in acrylics, often exploring color interruptions between bubblegum pastel and dour neutrals, using fluid shape and defined, repetitive line work. Her watercolor landscapes additionally take on a minimalist style while emphasizing the availability of negative space. She has displayed her art all over Maine in recent years, including at New Fruit’s Moon Show and Float Harder. In 2015, Becky also published the popular adult coloring book Downeast Daydream: A Maine Coloring Vacation, which was featured in Maine Today and Downeast Magazine. Some of her work is inspired by spending summers on an island in Maine and her roots as a ninth-generation Mainer, with her sixth great-grandfather Ezekiel Bradford settling in Turner in 1782.