Hi, I’m Beth
I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember, thank you for being here.
Beth Bailey is a visual artist and gardener rooted in the South Shore. Her studio practice draws on the fearless, uninhibited creativity of childhood to explore the natural world.
Whether she is capturing a sweeping landscape, or the intimate details of a floral arrangement, Beth paints to evoke a memory. Her work invites viewers to step inside the feeling of a place, blending the bold lines of her earlier design work with the organic beauty of the garden.
My deal:
I’m a visual thinker
(what kind of thinker are you?)
and have leaned on that since childhood.
After my parents finished washing the crayon murals off the walls of our home, they started dropping me off at a friend’s ceramics studio (shout out Pam Golden) and enrolling me in art classes.
This eventually led to my pursuit of two BFAs from MassArt: one in Art Education with Studio Specialization and one in Painting.
I’ve been teaching art in my community for 15 years.
Working with clay was like going back to my roots, covered in mud like the child I was in my family’s garden. Now, I’m finding endless inspiration making gardening and botanical focused paintings.
For ten years, my work was defined by clay. Sustaining a career in ceramics requires an immense amount of physical labor and an unwavering commitment to consistent practice.
As I pivot back to my roots in painting, I am bringing the work ethic required in the ceramics studio to my paintings, pouring that structured discipline into my new 2D mixed media pieces.
