Haidee Becker


	FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION: PAINTINGS BY HAIDEE BECKER 10 - 24 NOVEMBER 2015 Patrick Bourne & Co 6 St James’s Place, London SW1A 1NP www.patrickbourne.com tel: + 44 (0)20 3696 5285 “My first startling encounter with Haidee Becker’s painting is refreshing with each new exhibition. Friends of hers and mine had left with her their two children for a few days. When I saw the portraits of the two, painted during those days, the shock of their live presence, in such marvelously fluid and moulded colours, was something I shall never forget. Those pictures became, for me, an ideal, of portraiture. The painted surface like some kind of precious substance - nothing fixed or cold, yet nothing arbitary or external - and a vibrant immediacy of the person. After that, I got to know some of her still lives and flowers. They have, for me, the essential quality; the revelation of a passionate inwardsness, like portraits of hypnagogic images just about to materialize, lit and shadowed with a turbulent yet magnetic inner form. The depth is the psychological depth of great sweetness - gently and powerfully focused. Living with them has confirmed all my first impressions about them.” Ted Hughes Poet Laureate of Great Britain