BEAUTY: Painting--Beth Shields

With primal strokes, scratches, and gashes of graphite, wax and oil on bottomless colorfields, Beth Shields paints the amorphousness and shifting nature of pure emotion and thought. Her work is enigmatic, contemplative and luminous; most pieces seem to glow with some kind of inner light.

From the Artist's Statement on her website:
"Emotionally, the abstract nature of the work is about my sense of sorrow and joy and the fact that for me, emotions seem to exist outside any object or concept. Conceptually, I want the work to express my sense of the ephemeral, ever-changing, and undefinable nature of our lives and this world. The unknown and the unknowable..."



http://www.bethshields.com/