Katy Becker (b 1991) is a Richmond based artist who received her BFA in 2013 from Virginia Commonwealth University's Painting and Printmaking department. Her work is inspired and informed by landscape, environment, and literature- both the stories she read as a child and the stories she currently reads to her children. Since her time in school, Becker's work has shifted from printmaking abstracted, atmospheric monotypes to detailed watercolor cityscapes, and again to looser mixed media sketchbook pages. A wife and mother, she spends her days homemaking and homeschooling her four children whilst stealing away small pockets of time to paint. Becker divides studio time between loose and playful sketches- often of her children and garden, while also developing illustrations inspired from her favorite stories. She enjoys spending time with her husband and children, baking, gardening, reading, entertaining friends and keeping the house plants from dying.