"Message from Grandmother" 24x24 oil
"Scotty" 16x20 pastel
A short Biography
I was born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1961. I began to draw and paint at the age of 3 years old. There was never any doubt as to what my passion in life would be, only in the application.
After graduating school, I moved to New York and eventually migrated upstate to the Catskills, a place I had only dreamed of seeing, let alone living there.
Soon, I opened my own shop, Art By Beth, providing Fine Art work in commissioned portraits and furniture, Graphic Art in the form of printing, business signs and vehicles. All along pursuing my novel writing and doing my own brand of Magical Realism. My own art went along the realm of spiritual stories in oil, pastel and acrylic. I had a few shows and was moving along my journey to becoming a better artist.
In 2008, disaster struck, my shop of 23 years at Brookside Hardware in Margaretville, burned to the ground. All of my drawing, paintings and precious artwork was destroyed. I had saved every piece I had ever done from the time of my childhood. Other than what was on people’s walls, my lifetime of work was gone.
I just came out of a successful show at the Zoom Gallery in spring 2011 and was looking forward to moving past this sad era of my life with new art and new goals.
