The artist Becky Rogers arrived in Texas from the Sunflower State and now calls the Texas Hill Country home-sweet-home. Her birth place, Elkhart, Kansas, is a small county seat town in the southwest corner of that state.
Rogers hails from a tri-state area. Three states, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas, intersect near her birth place. Elkhart, Kansas is about 150 miles north of Amarillo, and the Kansas/Oklahoma line divides the town. Rogers could have chosen to travel across the line to Oklahoma or Colorado to begin her adult life, but instead, she chose college and career in the Lone Star State.
Photo: Spring Awakening by Becky Rogers
Becky Rogers, the first-born of five, began painting as a child. She is the first and only artist in the family. Her early memories are of sketches of landscapes, but as a young college student, she decided art was not the best way to earn a living. While attending Lubbock Christian University, she switched her major from art to business, and entered the finance world of banking. So, how did a banker become a well-known Texan and a sought-after artist?
Following the university years in Lubbock, Becky was offered employment in the mortgage and loan sector of finance. She relocated to Temple, Texas, and that occupation lasted twenty years.
Photo: courtesy Becky Rogers
While Becky was making a name for herself in Temple, a good-looking guy, Jerry Rogers, caught her eye. He also worked in the banking profession, and marriage was soon in their plans. When asked who her all-time favorite Texan is, Becky quickly responds, “Jerry! He’s a native Texan!” Now, years later, the couple live in the Hill Country. No doubt Becky would have been born in or around Fredericksburg if her parents had given her a say in the matter. All the way from planting her roots in Lubbock, to down south in the Hill Country, Becky loves Texas and plans to stay. The Kansas girl became a Texas lady.
Art, her life-long goal, was forever in her mind, and Rogers continued to dabble with painting while she tallied up columns of numbers at the bank in Temple.
After Temple, the Rogers lived in Corpus Christi for six years, and then found their way to the Hill Country. They searched the region around Fredericksburg and found a beautiful, inspiring location just outside of Comfort, Texas. At present, their large house accommodates two art studios. One is strictly for Becky’s personal use, and the other is her teaching studio. Becky and Jerry plan to downsize soon and relocate to Boerne, Texas, another gorgeous locale for an artist.
