ABOUT
I have had a long and varied history of Art making. The following images illustrate the main directions I have taken. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them and have learned a great deal in the process. If you look closely you will see colors, themes and the ways of handling subject matter which carry through them all.
Working in fired clay taught me to embrace the “Happy Accident”, as my ceramic mentor Paul Soldner described it. You learn to work with the unexpected – something that happens during the process that you hadn’t planned on. This is the greatest challenge, and the greatest learning tool!
I draw what I see around me - I work quickly and discard a lot while I’m trying to get something I’m happy with. Sometimes this realization will take a few days, but the freshness of line and color is key. I’m particularly attracted to flowers and leaves and plant shapes; but also shadows - shadows through a window, shadows on the street.
I love to travel, what I bring back are shapes and colors, smells and tastes. Different combinations of these bring back the experience and I am transported in an instant, for an instant. The emotional residue of travel, of foreign experience, is what stays with me, and I can re-live the experience through my work.
My paintings are intended to be intimate in scale, and very personal. I want to draw the viewer to a place of emotional engagement; to be touched without touching, bur connected through looking.
Beth Changstrom
I have had a long and varied history of Art making. The following images illustrate the main directions I have taken. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them and have learned a great deal in the process. If you look closely you will see colors, themes and the ways of handling subject matter which carry through them all.
Working in fired clay taught me to embrace the “Happy Accident”, as my ceramic mentor Paul Soldner described it. You learn to work with the unexpected – something that happens during the process that you hadn’t planned on. This is the greatest challenge, and the greatest learning tool!
I draw what I see around me - I work quickly and discard a lot while I’m trying to get something I’m happy with. Sometimes this realization will take a few days, but the freshness of line and color is key. I’m particularly attracted to flowers and leaves and plant shapes; but also shadows - shadows through a window, shadows on the street.
I love to travel, what I bring back are shapes and colors, smells and tastes. Different combinations of these bring back the experience and I am transported in an instant, for an instant. The emotional residue of travel, of foreign experience, is what stays with me, and I can re-live the experience through my work.
My paintings are intended to be intimate in scale, and very personal. I want to draw the viewer to a place of emotional engagement; to be touched without touching, bur connected through looking.
Beth Changstrom
