CDG | Artists

BA (Hons) Textile Design

University of West England

2004

The foundation of Beth's current body of work lies in the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi: exploring the beauty found within transience.

From finding a rotting garment by a stream to a stream of consciousness, her current collection travels through ethereal, abstract landscape style paintings at times combined with figurative biro or pencil drawings of wild animals or birds. Having been brought up in Somerset and Dorset Beth is hugely inspired by the sea and the countryside.

The work is extremely cathartic. Beth spends hours slowly manipulating the ink to find the right composition and sometimes when its dry writing streams of consciousness on top of the work.

''The writing is an important element, as being dyslexic it can at times be a huge struggle, but at other times the thoughts flow and the time flies.''