Original Watercolor Paintings, prints and note cards - Still Life, and Florals in Realism

Luminance, reflections, and color all attract me to my subjects. I see light dance through glass, or sparkle off a lemon, and I feel compelled to capture what I see with paint and paper. My art is my way emphasizing the beauty in the every day world around us, of asking the viewer to slow down long enough to enjoy the vibrancy of color in a flower or the of brilliance light streaming through crystal.

Art has always been my passion. As a child, my parents had only to give me scrap paper and crayons to entertain me for hours. I won my first national award for art in high school, and earned my degree in Art Education from the University of Maryland. I taught art in the public schools for several years, and then worked as a graphic artist and illustrator.

I live in Charlotte, NC, with my wonderful husband, Dev. I certainly could not be doing what I am doing without his belief in me. We have three cats, Diva, Empress, and Samuari, who all live up to their names. And two black lab mixes, Schnapps and Bailey who spend most of the day trying to sleep as close to me as possible.

We also run a rock shop call PrettyRock.com and I spend as much of my time studying gems and minerals, shipping facet rough and gemological equipment, and as I do painting :)

Thank you for visiting!

Beth

"How important are the visual arts in our society?
I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance.
Of course, I could be prejudiced. I am visual art"
~ Kermit The Frog

schnapps and bailey, trying to make it in a cats world
My painting area

Exhibitions:
2005 Oct-Jan 2005 Featured Painting WatercolorPainting.com
2005 Vacation Edition - Featured Artist Dream's Alive e-magazine
2005 North Carolina Watercolor Society Exhibition (Show in October)
2005 Charlotte Art League Juried Show - 1st Place for Strawberries and Crystal
2005 Invited artist - Art of the Bath - Majestic Bath & Art Aspects April
2003 Mooresville Gallery Guest Artist March
2002 Guild of Charlotte Artists - Honorable Mention
2002 Artists Competition

Upcoming Shows
none.. anyone have a space available?

Publications:
North Carolina Literary Review 2004

Memberships:
Watercolor Society of North Carolina - associate
Southern Watercolor Society - associate

When Earth's last picture is painted
And the tubes are twisted and dried
When the oldest colors have faded
And the youngest critic has died
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it
Lie down for an aeon or two
'Till the Master of all good workmen
Shall put us to work anew

And those that were good shall be happy
They'll sit in a golden chair
They'll splash at a ten league canvas
With brushes of comet's hair
They'll find real saints to draw from
Magdalene, Peter, and Paul
They'll work for an age at a sitting
And never be tired at all.

And only the Master shall praise us.
And only the Master shall blame.
And no one will work for the money.
No one will work for the fame.
But each for the joy of the working,
And each, in his separate star,
Will draw the thing as he sees it.
For the God of things as they are!

Rudyard Kipling

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands, and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands, and his head, and his heart, is an artist."
St. Francis of Assisi