Becker has a wonderful gift for communicating the structure of a flower or branch with a few brushstrokes, but the extraordinary power and quality of her ‘flower paintings’ lie in her ability to communicate a whole mood or atmosphere. Using a tightly restricted harmony of colours she creates an air of reverie, as Ted Hughes (1930-1988) described:
They have, for me, the essential quality; the revelation of a passionate inwardness, like portraits of hypnagogic images just about to materialise, lit and shadowed with a turbulent yet magnetic inner form. The depth is the psychological depth of great sweetness - gently and powerfully focused.
Haidee Becker was a pupil of Uli Nimptsch and Adrian Ryan, and lives and works in London. She is represented exclusively by Patrick Bourne & Co.