Biography


Sara Beth is a native of Huntsville, Alabama and lives with her husband Steve and their three children on the beautiful Monte Sano Mountain where her studio is located. Growing up in the south, Sara Beth developed a taste for art at an early age from her parents. Both are professionals while having distinguished careers in the arts and crafts business.  Art and creativity for Sara Beth as a child were a part of her home and everyday life.

Education

During a fellowship to the Netherlands in 1989, Sara Beth visited art museums across Europe studying first hand the works by the great Masters. She put much of her artistic pursuits on hold while receiving a Masters in Mechanical Engineering Design and a PhD in Applied Optics.

Her background in the sciences has provided a solid foundation for her studies of art, color theory, and individual expression. “The love of understanding how things are created and art, the act of creating, are not as different as one would think. Think of the Renaissance artists, the impressionist, the fauves and the moderns: they all were passionately trying to understand what they were seeing, with their eyes and heart, and then how to best convey this feeling.

In 1999, Sara Beth was finally able to pursue painting on a full time basis. Since then she has diligently engaged in her study of art independently as well as by attending painting and drawing workshops and classes with many local, national, and internationally recognized artists including Murat Kaboulov, Quang Ho, Carolyn Anderson, Sherry McGraw and Igor Babailov. She has also studied with students of the late Russian Master Sergei Bongart, including Guido Frick from Germany and Ovanes Berberian in his Idaho outdoor studio.

Her style is influenced by her love for the Russian School of Art as well as American and French impressionists.

 

 Artist Statement


“My desire is for my paintings to stir emotions with the use of color, texture and expression of a subject; the vivid and the subtle combined to give feeling! To me art is not about the reproduction of nature but about the reproduction of an emotion allowing the imagination to fill in the details. I am so moved by the impressionists and their desire to understand the true meaning of art by combining color, form, expression, and, most importantly, how we see with our heart. This is what drives me every day to pick up my paint brush and attempt to capture a feeling inspired from God's perfect creation.“



Website

www.SaraBethFair.com