Art has saved me and fulfilled me. My gratitude is endless.
Welcome to the studio where I paint nearly every day. It is such a joy to create art. I am always excited when I open the French doors and enter my studio. It is more than my happy place. It is a sunlit room where I imagine, I create, I laugh and sometimes I even cry. Art is all of my emotions just waiting to be tapped.
Artist Statement
I see art everywhere, both man made, and God made. The joy of creating art is exceeded only by the giving of art.
Born in Erie, Pa, Beatrice received a BA in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. When asked how she ultimately became an artist, she responded,
“ I was lucky to have been brought up in a family where art was part of everyday life but not with actually painting or collecting art. So, whether it was knitting, embroidery, gardening, writing poetry, setting a beautiful table, or selecting fabric to make my school clothes, I was always immersed in art. I just didn’t recognize it at the time.”
It wasn’t until I was pregnant with our second child that I started to create. I made cloth granny dolls with vintage fabrics and bravely met the buyer at Neiman Marcus in Atlanta. She ordered 30 of my dolls for displays in their Dallas store. I was thrilled. But this didn’t launch me as an entrepreneur. Instead, I waited until our second child was four and I got a real estate license. Go figure!”
Starting a career in real estate when her two children were young, ultimately led to decades in the new home industry where she became President of the Builder Developer Services division of Coldwell Banker Atlanta. She said that “Working with builders, developers, land planners, architects and designers was not only creative and exciting, but it was the foundation for color, design and composition that thrive in the art world.”
Retiring early to spend time with her beloved Jim, who had Alzheimer’s, was the ultimate catalyst that led her to take a few local lessons in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and oil. Art became the sustenance during years of sadness and grief. “A friend told me that art had saved me. And she was right. And when breast cancer and chemo shocked my world, art saved me once again. Art is so powerful and so meaningful to the creator and the viewer. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by it.”
On two occasions, Beatrice was accepted into the Metro Montage national exhibit at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art.
Today her art hangs in homes and offices throughout the country.
She is a prolific painter in a multitude of mediums and subject matter.
“I paint for the sheer joy of it. I’m not trying to build an empire. I’m just feeding my soul.”
I see art everywhere, both man made, and God made. The joy of creating art is exceeded only by the giving of art.
Born in Erie, Pa, Beatrice received a BA in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. When asked how she ultimately became an artist, she responded,
“ I was lucky to have been brought up in a family where art was part of everyday life but not with actually painting or collecting art. So, whether it was knitting, embroidery, gardening, writing poetry, setting a beautiful table, or selecting fabric to make my school clothes, I was always immersed in art. I just didn’t recognize it at the time.”
It wasn’t until I was pregnant with our second child that I started to create. I made cloth granny dolls with vintage fabrics and bravely met the buyer at Neiman Marcus in Atlanta. She ordered 30 of my dolls for displays in their Dallas store. I was thrilled. But this didn’t launch me as an entrepreneur. Instead, I waited until our second child was four and I got a real estate license. Go figure!”
Starting a career in real estate when her two children were young, ultimately led to decades in the new home industry where she became President of the Builder Developer Services division of Coldwell Banker Atlanta. She said that “Working with builders, developers, land planners, architects and designers was not only creative and exciting, but it was the foundation for color, design and composition that thrive in the art world.”
Retiring early to spend time with her beloved Jim, who had Alzheimer’s, was the ultimate catalyst that led her to take a few local lessons in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and oil. Art became the sustenance during years of sadness and grief. “A friend told me that art had saved me. And she was right. And when breast cancer and chemo shocked my world, art saved me once again. Art is so powerful and so meaningful to the creator and the viewer. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by it.”
On two occasions, Beatrice was accepted into the Metro Montage national exhibit at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art.
Today her art hangs in homes and offices throughout the country.
She is a prolific painter in a multitude of mediums and subject matter.
“I paint for the sheer joy of it. I’m not trying to build an empire. I’m just feeding my soul.”