EVOLUTION OF ART: MARGUERITE BECK-REX @ BEANETICS!

Here we are at Beanetics for the latest in our artist receptions. Tonight we are featuring WCA water color artist, Marguerite Beck-Rex. When Marguerite makes her annual pilgrimage to France, she packs her watercolor supplies, heads off to Provence, and paints the fields of lavender.For Beck-Rex, the pulse of poetry and the play of color in gardens led directly to the pleasure of becoming a landscape painter. Watercolor painting seemed a natural outgrowth of years invested in gardening and publishing poetry in which the rhythms of the seasons and images of nature’s colors ran rampant.

Over the years, her poetry has appeared in many poetry and gardening journals as well as in the Christian Science Monitor. Over the past fifteen years, her paintings have been exhibited widely over the Washington DC area. During the first of her years of study at The Art League in Virginia, Beck-Rex traveled to the Luberon area of Provence, where family farms lush with lavender, wheat and vineyards have for many years been a magnet for artists.She then began to coordinate what has become an annual trip for artists to that region, which is studded with villages perched on the sides of the Luberon Mountains, offering colorful views. Her work is influenced by David Hockney's curvilinear explorations of the East Yorkshire countryside. Come stop by, have a cup of coffee, and tell us what you think.