My name is Morgan Beckwith and I am a painter. I trained in oil, but starting a small farm and having my daughter prompted me to reinvent my approach and employ gouache, colored pencil, and crayon. I make mostly smaller portraits of little objects that I cherish in those in-between moments... the tomatoes that look so perfect in the afternoon light, the fresh apple blossoms that will fade in their first storm. I love these treasures our home offers up for us to enjoy. These moments are like glistening sprinkles on a cupcake, the closer you look the more see.

I love paint. I always have. I love the way it looks on your pallet. Is it a tool or is it a snack... so creamy in texture, its color gleaming and clean. I enjoy making work that lends itself to being reconstructed and re-imagined in paint. Painting is a little magic trick played on us all with bits of color and shapes beside one another.

I prefer painting the things that are fit to be made of such miraculous and charming materials. Painting for me is a way to savor a moment, an afternoon in the garden, a way to look back and remember the sound of geese in the yard, goats grazing fall grass, my daughter collecting rocks and sharing tomatoes with the dogs. Painting is way of cataloging the feeling of times in my life I want to never forget.