| Born in western Pennsylvania, Beth Cornell was influenced by the local flavors of folk art available there. She was painting gang members jackets and doing business as an 'artist' from age 12. As happens sometimes, the grown ups in her life encouraged her to learn a trade, printing was the trade that Beth learned. She became a press operator, utilizing her skills with color, at the peak of her career she worked for the Department of Defense, Army in Germany. It was at the moment in time that life shifted suddenly, she became pregnant with her daughter and could not tolerate the chemicals present in the printing trade. At the same time, she learned of her return to the US due to military PCS.
Beths life has taken many wild turns with the birth of a daughter, the loss of a career and an intercontinental move that would land her family in the Great Flood of 1993 (St Louis, MO)... she slowly began to make peace with change. Picking up a paint brush for the first time since her stint as gang member jacket painter, she began to express using bold colors and abstract themes. These early paintings were signed BoseC, a name given to her by a girlfriend joking about her bossy nature. Beth would sign her creations BoseC for many years. Many of those paintings were given as gifts, several were sold, only a few remain and even fewer are available for sale.
Meditation is Beths daily practice, themes from her meditation journeys and from visions that she constantly receives had a birth place in the paintings. The paintings became a way to express the inner conflicts and contradictions of life as it is...and to accept it all. The painting allows expression of the immeasurable joy and sorrow that can be found in experiencing life as a human being.
In 2004 Beth began to sign her work with her full name... slowly building a local following by exhibiting with local businesses, galleries and the First Fridays art walk, Beths work gained local recognition.
In March 2008, Beth traveled to Los Angeles for the Raw Arts Festival, a festival of self-taught intuitive art that has international acclaim. In July of 2008 Beths piece entitled "Green Ship Of Safety" was juried into the West Valley Art Museum Celebrating Art of the West Valley.
A retrospective of Beths art spanning ten years was at the Garfield Galleria for Art Detour 2009.
Life has continued to happen and Beth is currently creating many new works based on her experiences. Please visit Beths web site www.bethcornell.com for all the latest news and events.
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