A regular exhibitor at the Mall galleries in London, Fred Beckett is a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (President 1995-1997), an Honorary Artist Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and an Honourary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He was also the winner of the ROI Alan Gourley Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Painter in 1995, and was awarded the Le Clerc Fowle Gold Medal in 2002.

Fred cites the impressionists as a major influence on his work, his loose style bringing freshness and movement to his paintings. He draws his inspiration from the light and colour of natural landscapes.