Joel Becktell is a multi-faceted artist — painter, printmaker, ceramicist, photographer, and concert cellist. This site presents his recent work in the media of painting, drawing, and printmaking. 

"Creating is a sacrament. When we think with our hands, feel with our minds, see what could be there and then make it, we become part of the precious human tradition commonly known as 'art.' It can connect what's disparate inside us, the parts that have lost track of each other. And when the work is done, the creations themselves can go into the world and make more connections, between people who love beauty, who know that reality changes radically depending on perspective, who want a better perspective than the one possible from the pinpoint they occupy, who never stop searching for the elusive connections between the infinite times and places the humans have occupied and the fleeting one we occupy now."

     - Joel Becktell