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Biography
Sara Beth is a native of Huntsville, Alabama and lives with her husband Steve and their three children on the beautiful Monte Sano Mountain where her studio is located. Growing up in the south, Sara Beth developed a love for art at an early age from her parents. Both are professionals while having distinguished careers in the arts and crafts business. Art and creativity for Sara Beth as a child were a part of her home and everyday life.
Education
During a fellowship to the Netherlands in 1989, Sara Beth visited art museums across Europe studying first hand the works by the great Masters. She put much of her artistic pursuits on hold while receiving a Masters in Mechanical Engineering Design and a PhD in Applied Optics.
Her background in the sciences has provided a solid foundation for her studies of art, color theory, and individual expression. In 1999, Sara Beth was finally able to pursue painting on a full time basis. Since then she has diligently engaged in her study of art independently as well as by studying with many local, national, and internationally recognized artists.
Her style is influenced by her love for the Russian School of Art as well as American and French impressionists.
Sara Beth is a member of the Oil Painters of America, the Portrait Society of America ,the Gulf Alliance for Local Art, and the Chesnut Group,a nonprofit alliance of landscape artists, Franklin, TN, www.chesnutgroup.org.
Artist Statement
“My desire is for my paintings to stir emotions with the use of color, texture and expression of a subject; the vivid and the subtle combined to give feeling! To me art is not about the reproduction of nature but about the reproduction of an emotion allowing the imagination to fill in the details. I am so moved by the impressionists and their desire to understand the true meaning of art by combining color, form, expression, and, most importantly, how we see with our heart. This is what drives me every day to pick up my paint brush and attempt to capture a feeling inspired from God's perfect creation.“
Collections:
Port St. Joe Company
Progress Bank, Huntsville, Al
Juried Shows and Invitationals:
Hanover Gallery, Featured Guest Artist, September 2008
Florida's Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational, 2008
Harding Academy Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2008
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, Featured Local Artist, 2008
David Lipscomb Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2008
Brentwood Academy Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2007
Monte Sano Art Show, 2007
Maury Regional Fine Art Show, Columbia, Tn, 2007
Habersham Gallery, Solo Exhibition, 2007
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2007
Brentwood Academy Fine Art Show, Nashville, Tn. 2006
Monte Sano Art Show, 2006
Habersham Gallery, Solo Exhibition, 2006
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2006
Monte Sano Art Show, 2005
Huntsville Museum of Art Gala, 2005
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