Artist Biography  Beka Brayer was born in California but moved to Hawaii when she was three months old.  She was raised on the Island of Oahu, where she stayed until she finished her higher education at the University of Hawaii with a degree in Criminal Law.  Shortly after she graduated, she began flying internationally for Continental Airlines, a career she pursued for 10 years until she married and began a family.  She eventually returned to her husbands hometown, Burlingame CA, to raise her children and began to pursue her passion for art. Art has always been an integral part of her life!  Though she has had no formal education or training, she has always believed that to be an artist, one must choose to live a life based and driven by the artistic ideal. Her way of life as an artist has truly been passed down through generations of artistic genes. She is an emerging artist that is fairly new on the scene.  She had her first opportunity to show her work at Sobi Gallery in Burlingame CA, from 2005-2006 and presently shows at AvenueArt Gallery in San Mateo and City Art Gallery in San Francisco.    She has contributed works for fund raising benefits to:  The American Cancer Society- Mask Project, Charles Armstrong School for Dyslexia and most recently, to the wild life clean up efforts resulting from the BP oil spill.  Before immersing herself in her artistry full time, she owned and operated a children’s art program called Wee Willie Wenke’s, for four years. Her hope is to free the thinker from cultural constraints and expose them to the underlying beauty found just below the surface where true creativity lies.  She chooses to embrace the beauty in imperfection that is so often lost or overlooked in today’s society. “ It is not so much what one looks at, as what one sees when one is looking.”