BETH BEASLEY | Gouache
“I’m fascinated with the immense scale of certain landscapes and the emotional quality they often trigger, especially in the changeable crown of sky. I aim to create landscape scenes that appear to exist in a kind of geologic time—independent of the human gaze—yet still radiate a magnetic quality that invites the viewer in.”
Beth has worked in collage and printmaking (and the occasional handmade book) for the last twenty years. She started painting in 2017 as a break from attempting to write a novel. A California native, Beth has a degree in art history from Mills College in Oakland. She worked for art dealers in San Francisco in the 1990s, but then abandoned the city for the west coast of Ireland, where she became fascinated by the numinous quality of the landscape there—the same quality that inspires her in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
