About


Sarah Becktel is an American artist based at the NJ shore and Bozeman, MT. She earned her BFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art and continued her studies of representational drawing and painting at multiple locations.  Becktel has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and her work is in private collections across the world.
 
Becktel creates paintings and drawings that are inspired by animals, natural history, and ecology. Her current work is focused on the carnivore species of North America and she travels extensively throughout the American West to view her subjects and their natural environments. Becktel also finds inspiration in natural history museums where she can study skeletons and specimens of both living and extinct species. 

When Becktel is not working in her studio or traveling, she is educating artists and students about their mediums and materials. As an Artist Educator for Dixon Ticonderoga (which includes art materials brands such as Strathmore, Canson, Arches, Princeton brushes, and Maimeri) Becktel lectures at art schools and ateliers about the characteristics of art materials and how to choose the right products for each artist’s individual needs. She served as Product Research Director for the Colored Pencil Society of America from 2009 to 2015, which led to a rich understanding of lightfast testing and art materials manufacturing.