About THE ARTIST

Beth is a mixed media artist based in Bella Vista, Arkansas painting primarily in encaustics, which is a process of mixing and heating beeswax, pigment, and resin. Her “waxscapes” investigate the tension between real and built worlds and are deeply inspired by nature. She has painted since she was a child and began working in encaustics a decade ago when she took a workshop at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art while working at the museum. She fell in love with the medium and began her journey of learning and practicing in wax.

During the pandemic, she moved to the woods and created a dedicated studio space. Her practice became steadier as it was a channel for healing and hope during an uncertain time. Recently, she stepped away from a 20+ year career where she promoted the arts and wellness– she continues to explore the connection between art, nature, communications, and well-being in her art practice. In 2025, Beth delivered a TEDx talk on The Art of Healing, which explores how to connect with art as a source of vitality. Blending science, reflection, and her own artistic journey, Beth shares tools for pausing, checking in, and creating with intention in a world that glorifies hustle and productivity over passion and purpose.

Beth has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Media Communications. Her work has been acquired by collectors all over the country including Square, (payment app), as part of their corporate collection and Washington Regional Medical Center, and Homegrown Restaurant. In 2025, she was featured in a two-person exhibition at Mount Sequoyah Gallery in Fayetteville, was one of the artist in the MAKR Studio Artist Showcase & Speaker Series, featured in Natural State, a Femme Forward collective exhibition at Local Color Studio Gallery. In 2024, she was selected in the juried exhibition, LUSH at Midnight Gallery and was a part of an international exhibition, Canadian Encaustic Conference, Near and Far. In 2023, her encaustic works were included in a juried exhibition at Walton Arts Center’s exhibition, Our Art, Our Region, Our Time and in 2022, she was a featured artist at Arkansas Public Theatre at the Victory in Rogers, Arkansas. Beth’s work can currently be found at The Gallery in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas.

When not making art, she can be found hosting Visit Bentonville’s podcast, A New American Town, curating art spaces, and helping lead her daughter’s Girl Scout Troop.

Artist Statement:

My work explores the intersection of art, nature, and well-being with a sense of wonder. As an encaustic artist, I use beeswax, pigment, and tree resin to create mythic landscapes—melting, carving, fusing, and scraping back layers help me understand the ongoing transformation around us and within us. Organic materials root each piece in nature, while rich colors, flashes of gold, and waxy layers of text and symbols weave stories of history, hope, and resilience.

Driven by curiosity, my work poses visual questions about the places and ideas that shape me, and I invite the viewer to pause, look closely, feel, and reflect on their place in a shifting world. After decades of telling others’ stories, I’ve found my own voice through my art practice—still storytelling, now in wax—echoing the poet, Mary Oliver’s “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”