Monte Becker

Monte Becker became a year-round resident of Martha’s Vineyard during the early part of 1999.  He now resides and paints at his home in Chilmark.  It was always the plan for the Becker family to live here when their daughter graduated from high school, and now Monte is surrounded by the Island’s natural inspirations.

His formal education includes the Boston Museum School and the Seong Moy School of Graphics.  He also studied with Henry Hensche at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown and at the Malden Bridge School of Art in Malden Bridge, New York.  Monte Becker's work has been shown in galleries throughout New England for many years and his work can be found in both private and corporate collections.

Monte Becker often visits museums and is always drawn to American Impressionism because for him it seems to elicit passionate emotions and he draws inspiration from these experiences.  He describes his painting as, “an intimate view, a small slice of life that evokes the big emotional response;  like a memory.  When I look out at a harbor and see a classic wooden boat, it is as beautiful as a piece of sculpture to me.  When I see a figure in a garden or a boat in the water, that’s my inspiration to create a picture that shows mankind at peace with nature.”

Monte Becker feels that, “the process of learning the craft of painting is a long one, but not as long as the process of becoming a person.  I discovered that an artist must develop as a person in order to develop as an artist.  Paintings reflect the artist whether he or she wants them to or not.  That is why I am striving to be a student of nature.”

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