Carmen Beecher

Carmen Beecher is a native Floridian who escaped the Cubicle Jungle after many years of working for the Air Force, and finally was able to devote herself to her art full-time. While primarily an oil painter, she has extensive professional experience in graphic arts, book illustration and custom designed murals. During her time as an Illustrator she won many awards, both at Air Force Systems Command level and Air Force level. Four of her paintings are in the permanent Air Force Art Collection.

Published work includes book illustrations and cover illustrations, including a calendar and designs for Mastercard credit cards. She also conceived, wrote and illustrated three comic strips: two for the Air Force and one for a retiree publication with a circulation of 60,000.

She painted many murals during her government career, and currently has murals in a bookstore in Middleburg,Virginia, Curves of Satellite Beach, River Run Christian Church in Melbourne, and private residences in Florida.

“I have been drawing since I could pick up a pencil, and I feel so blessed to be able to devote myself to painting full-time. Art is a complex, elusive discipline and any artist worth her salt is always striving to improve, and to express in paint what words can’t convey. I love painting interesting places, still life, and of course, the beauty of Florida, but people still fascinate me as subjects, especially when they are going about their everyday lives. I am fascinated with the drama that can be created with light, and every day that I walk across the street to the ocean, I see a different play of color and light on the sea. For me, art is a never-ending exploration of subjects, colors, styles, and emotions, and there is nothing more exhilarating than seeing it all come together in the painting I had visualized.”