“When I paint I don’t think. I allow my brush to follow the path that feels most natural. I never force anything. I never start with a plan. My paintings are organic and tend to grow in a very cellular way. Inspired and influenced by nature, Abstract Expressionism and the Surrealists ideas of Automatism, I use art as a means of connecting with the most basic elements of all that is natural both in and around me. I consider my art to be an attempt at both growing closer to and bringing together the most basic elements of my own existence and the natural world.”
“There was an Austrian Artist named Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who’s one of my all-time favorite painters. He believed that there was no straight line found in nature, so in his art he decided to use all curvilinear lines, because a straight line was something created by man. It does not exist in nature and rarely will you find a straight line in my work. Instead, the circles encircle me. Life is made up of loops. Each moment, each day, each month, each year we are alive we are adding loops. Beats of music, thoughts in my head, the blood flowing through my veins, the rising and setting of the sun…”
You can view more of Beth’s work at Apollonova.com (a great local artist collective) and contact her via email at bciborek@gmail.com
