 Beckett could only go out during the dawn and dusk to paint as most of her day was spent caring for them.Beckett is recognised as one of Australia's most important modernist artists, though some have classified her as a 'daughter of Monet'.In his review of the first of two exhibitions held at the Rosalind Humphrey Gallery in 1971 and 1972, Patrick McCaughey described Beckett as a remarkable Modernist, because of the 'flatness of the surface in her painting'.