Watercolor is my reckoning. It is the tension between control and surrender, between what I long to preserve and what is destined to slip away. Every brushstroke is a conversation between chaos and form, between the uncontainable wildness of feeling and the sacred order that hums beneath it all.

I’m drawn to a realism that stretches beyond the literal—where color, scale, or subject matter nudges the familiar into the realm of the uncanny. I don’t know if I belong fully to realism or surrealism, but I find myself most alive in the space between, where the ordinary becomes strange and the strange feels true. 

This is my work: to capture what cannot be captured. To give shape to the ineffable. To embrace the fleeting, because that is where beauty lives. 

BIO

Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Alexandra Becker-Black has been creating art all her life. Formally trained in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, her relationship with watercolor began unexpectedly—when she was forced to find a new medium after developing an allergic reaction to oil paints. Within weeks of picking up watercolor, Alexandra found not just a new medium, but a new voice.

Years later, much of her technique remains self-taught, shaped through a natural, ongoing exploration of the medium and its expressive possibilities. She now paints from her studio on the Oregon Coast, where the surrounding natural beauty continues to inform her work.

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