Beth Bathe

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Beth Bathe is an artist residing in Lancaster, PA. After a long career as a graphic designer, Beth now pursues painting full time. Primarily painting in oil en plein air since 2013 she participates in high profile competitions from Maine to Washington State, including Plein Air Easton, Door County WI, Cape Ann MA, LighthouseArt Center FL, Paint Annapolis, MD and others, for a total of 12 competitions in 2022 alone.  Her paintings have won numerous awards and honors and she is a featured artist in the 2018 February/March issue of PleinAir Magazine and is in an article regarding Water Soluble Oils in the December/January 2020/21 issue. 

 

Beth’s painting style is unique, looking somewhat like a watercolor, or is it an oil painting?  She uses Cobra Water Mixable Oil Colors in thin washes with a limited tonalist palette, using unconventional tools such as squeegees and qtips along with her brushes. Her representational paintings have been described by critics as evoking nostalgia, like that of an old sepia toned photograph, often with just touches of color. She is highly influenced by painter Andrew Wyeth, and her subject matter is often what she refers to as the "vanishing landscape", including finding beauty in buildings, barns and old towns of a time gone by and often beyond their prime. Old barns, a Victorian farmhouse, a back alley, a fire escape, an old mill, or an old split rail fence down a country road are common subjects. Beth paints primary on location to catch her subject at a specific time, especially how the light and shadows play on the surface create drama and emotion.

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