PAST SHOW: Castine to Camden in Seven Years", Olena Babak and Beth Bathe
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, Sedona AZ, Richmond VA and others, for a total of 10+ competitions a year. Her paintings have won numerous awards and honors and she is a featured artist in the 2018 February/March issue of PleinAir Magazine.
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.
Beth has a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University ‘81. She teaches classes and leads workshops at her studio, Short Dog Studio, in Ephrata, PA, where she shares her space with her photographer partner and three cardigan welsh corgis.
She is currently represented by Vermont Artisan Designs in Brattleboro VT; Crystal Moll Gallery, Baltimore MD; Red Raven Fine Art Gallery, Lancaster, PA; Les Poissons Gallery, Chestertown, MD; McBride Gallery, Annapolis MD and Folly Cove Fine Art in Rockport MA. In mid 2022 she will be joining Camden Falls Gallery, Camden Maine and Fine Line Designs Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Sister Bay, WI
Beth is a Artist Member and on the Executive Board as Secretary of the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters (MAPAPA), Oil Painters of America (OPA), Outdoor Painters Society (OPS), Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters (SVPAP), Daily Painters of Pennsylvania and Daily Paintworks. In February 2016 she participated in the Plein Air Magazine Invitational trip to Cuba, and has also plein air painted in China.
Beth Bathe Recent press/media
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Plein Air Magazine December 2020/January 2021 Field Test: What’s Up With Water Mixable Oils
Plein Air – Not for Sissies Chadd’s Ford Live News February 2020
PleinAir Magazine Featured artist, Feb/March 2018 (Water Mixable Oil Demonstration)
Avoid Solvents on Location-Cobra Water Soluble Oils Outdoor Painter January 2018
https://www.outdoorpainter.com/avoid-solvents-on-location/
AugSept issue 2018 Beaches and Coastlines portfolio feature in Plein Air Magazine
SeptOct issue 2018 Fish/ Fishing theme portfolio feature in the of Fine Art Connoisseur
DecJan 2018/19 theme portfolio of Doors, Windows, Passages PleinAir Magazine
Featured artwork Fine Art Connoisseur
https://fineartconnoisseur.com/?s=beth+bathe
Plein Air Magazine, digital articles and featured artwork
https://www.outdoorpainter.com/?s=Beth+Bathe
Southwest Art Magazine Jurors Choice Award 2016
https://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/feature-articles/portfolio-jurors-choice
Awards
• Vasari Award, Wayne Plein Air 2022
• People’s choice Award, Rivertowns Plein Air 2022
• Honorable Mention, Rivertowns Plein Air 2022
• First Place, Camp Hill Summer Soiree Plein Air 2021
• Honorable Mention Farm to Table Plein Air 2021
• Honorable Mention Rivertowns Plein Air 2021
• Chairman’s Award Lighthouse Plein Air 2021
• Honorable Mention Farm To Table Plein Air 2019
• Honorable Mention Sedona Plein Air 2019
• Honorable Mention Farm To Table Plein Air 2019
• Peoples Choice Award Farm To Table Plein Air 2019
• Peoples Choice Award Adirondacks Plein Air 2019
• Best in Show Adirondacks Plein Air 2019
• Best Architecture Award Bath County Plein Air 2019
• Honorable Mention Gloucester Plein Air 2019
• Honorable Mention Wayne Plein Air 2019
• First Place/Best in Show– Abingdon Plein Air 2019
• People’s Choice/First Place– Abingdon Plein Air QuickDraw 2019
• Second Place– George Island Plein Air 2019
• Artist Choice Award – Bath Plein Air 2018
• First Place Quick Draw – Plein Air Plus 2018, NJ
• First Place – South Street Gallery Plein Air 2018
• Honorable Mention – Plein Air Plus 2018 NJ
• Third Place – Farm to Table Plein Air 2018
• Lake Placid Award – Adirondacks Plein Air 2018
• Award of Excellence, third place– Southwest Plein Air Festival 2018
• First Place Quick Draw – Queen City Plein Air 2018
• Honorable Mention – Richmond Plein Air 2017
• First Place Quick Draw – Fingerlakes Plein Air 2017
• People’s Choice Award – Plein Air Invitational 2017, South Street Galley, Easton MD
• Honorable Mention – Solomons Island Plein Air 2016
• Honorable Mention – Solomons Island Sunset Quickdraw 2016
• Honorable Mention – Richmond Plein Air 2016
• Donald Lewis Memorial Award – Bath County Plein Air 2015
• Judge’s Choice Award –Plein Air Easton 2015
• Second Place – Mountain Maryland Plein Air 2015
• Artists Choice Award – Camp Hill Plein Air Quick Draw 2015
• First Place – Maryland Agricultural Center Quick Draw 2015
• Best in Show/Artist Choice Award – Paint Snow Hill 2015
• First Place – 2014 Small Works Show, The Art Center, Mechanicsburg PA
• First Place and People’s Choice Award – Gettysburg Fest Plein Air Competition 2014
• Second Place – Quick Draw. Plein Air Camp Hill 2014
• Honorable Mention, Plein Air Camp Hill Quickdraw 2013
• Art League of Alexandria, VA annual show "'Scapes", 2010 and 2011
