Her background in the sciences has provided a solid foundation for her studies of art, color theory, and individual expression. Her background in the arts, likewise aided her in every aspect of the study of science. In 1999, Sara Beth was finally able to pursue painting and drawing on a full time basis. Since then she has diligently engaged in the study of art independently as well as by studying with many local, national, and internationally recognized artists. I have tried to fashion a classical art education using my background in the sciences in conjunction with studying the Bible, history, music, and literature.

Her style is influenced by her love for the great masters and the Russian, 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.

Where does Art come from?
"So God created man in  His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Our first gift from God, the Creator, was the gift of creativity. This gift is inherent in each and every one of us. He then gave us the creation, or nature, to have dominion over.  And on the seventh day, "God rested from all His work which God had created and made." God gave us a time to reflect, meditate and worship Him.

We are given creativity, we are given creation, and we are given a day of rest to honor the Creator. The three in synchronicity centered on the Creator. Our lives should be told in this fashion We all have the abilty to create, we all have been given the sciences through nature to take hold of and we must fashion this work around a day of pause or rest, focused on the Creator.

It is the unified marriage of the arts and sciences that brings a generation to a Renaissance. It is an equal weighting and unified approach to any work, combining the arts and sciences, where true miracles and strides in any area are made.  And all this must be founded on the Creator with the importance of rest emphasized. "Anyone can practice the notes of Chopin, but it is only considered true music when the pauses are added."

The marrigage of art and the sciences is everywhere around us. We just have to live consciously to see and feel and hear it. The combining of the aesthetic with the scientific is so easily found in nature and has been eloquently described as the Golden Mean or Fibonacci number. It is fundamental to a masterpiece of music, art, astronomy, the body, motions or cycles in nature, how our environment naturally recycles, how the waves curl and the leaves are formed...

It is a human's gift to create, study nature and we are told to sancify a day of rest. When done in unison, our lives begin to play the music.

My Art Journey
Creating art is a challenge. It is a challenge to capture the beauty that God surrounds us, the vision God has given each one of us, the vision that our life's adventures impress upon us, and it is a challenge to make these simple tools give us something that sings to the tune of our heart. Art also gives joy in that it makes us view our surroundings with great consciousness and the more our lives are lived with great consciousness the richer our art becomes.

"“I would like to beg you to have patience
With everything unresolved in your heart
And try to love the questions themselves…
Don’t search for answers
Which could not be given to you now
Because you would not be able to live them
And the point is to live everything.
Live the questions now
Perhaps then, someday in the future,
You will gradually, without even noticing it,
Live your way to the answer.” "
— Rainer Maria Rilke