Beth Stoddard
medium: painting
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 Season Opener 2014 Painting |
 Pine Grouping 2014 Painting |
 Wide Open Skies 2014 Painting |
 Illuminated Limbs 2014 Painting |
 Swift Skies 2014 Painting |
 Richfield Morning Haze 2014 Painting |
 Campus 2014 Painting |
 Tower 2014 Painting |
 Lonscale Fell and Latrigg Across Derwentwater 2014 Painting |
 Across Derwentwater 2014 Painting |
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Contact information
Artist resides in: Milwaukee, WI
Email Address: beth.stoddard.studio@gmail.com
Web site: bethstoddard.com
Artist statement
I paint views of my outdoor environment I find to be singularly striking, intriguing or beautiful.
Working predominantly from life, and sometimes completing by memory, I use oil paints in a direct manner, wet-into-wet. In the open air I develop naturalistic images by progressing from areas of local color, light and shadow to the details of specific tree branches or reflections in water. I often connect with a particular place and delight to return and view it in the cast of a different season or day, responding to its changes with several paintings over the course of weeks or months. The finished works while not unduly polished are complete, balancing suggestion and description.
Through spending even a modest amount of time in the outdoors the very invisible qualities of God can be seen and understood from what He has made. My local landscapes explore in small-scale this beautiful and far-reaching truth.
Biography
Beth Stoddard was born 1981 into an art and music loving home in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Benefiting from supportive teachers as well as family members, she drew and painted throughout childhood. She went on to study in Philadelphia at both the University of Pennsylvania (BFA 2003) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (four-year Certificate in Painting 2004). Her work is held in numerous private collections nationwide. She currently lives with her husband and four children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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