About

Joanna Beckett is a Polish-born abstract painter based in Los Angeles. Her paintings take shape through layering, scraping back and reworking the surface. Colour and texture shift. Traces of earlier marks remain.

Her practice centres on three related series. Together, they explore how a life takes shape through time and place: the moments that accumulate and the environments we inhabit.

In Dots, each dot represents a moment. As the marks accumulate, they form a visual code for the patterns and interruptions of a life.

Elements and Neons are rooted in her experience of Los Angeles, where natural and urban environments coexist. Elements draws on organic forms, light and processes of change. Neons responds to the intensity of the city through saturated colour that feels overexposed.

Beckett holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the UK and previously worked as a clinical psychologist in London. Her interest in perception and the ways people make sense of experience continues through her painting and writing.