About THE ARTIST:

With a love for bringing disparate things together so they can be seen in a  new light, Beth originally trained as a printmaker, and now paints and creates oil paintings and encaustics.  Born and raised in Southern California, Beth has the great advantage of a lifetime traveling to National Parks, taking long road trips and being curious from a young age at the intricacies of the natural world. All of these experiences find their way into her work. She is especially inspired by scenes from the West Coast and splits her time between California and Central Idaho. After a long career as a marriage and family therapist and executive coach, she has recently come back to her first calling of art.

Artist Statement:

Beth Bolsinger is an oil and encaustic painter who has long found inspiration in nature. Upon starting her work each day she asks, "How can I help others see the natural world in a new and fresh way? How will that shift in perspective bring them hope?" Since we now have cameras at our fingertips, it seems we all want to capture our awe-filled encounters in nature and somehow "take them with us". However, those photographs never quite match our experience of that moment. It is these vibrant recollections that Beth hopes to capture in her work. Through wide bands of bright colors, oriented around natural scenes, she captures the resonant moments of wonder when color is imprinted in our memories with more vibrancy than the original. To coordinate with the subject matter, Beth has recently started to use a Japanese wood burning method called Shou Sugi Ban to finish her edges.  This method darkens the wood panel edge to a warm, dark brown and reveals the natural wood grain.

Beth is inspired by and instructed in these pursuits by artists like the late Hans Hofmann, Wolf Kahn, Richard Diebenkorn, and Mark Rothko; and living artists, Richard Mayhew, Alicia Tormey and Brian Rutenberg. All of these artists have deepened Beth's understanding and way of seeing the world. In her work, Beth explores her fascination with color, utilizing ideas of color theory and color field painting, juxtaposing unusual color combinations to heighten visual vibrations she finds endlessly enchanting.