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Artist Statement

Practicing Wholeness.

Beth Lenco is a Nova Scotian painter and painting instructor living on the South Shore.  Beth’s paintings are intuitive, relatable, and full of colour, warmth, and joy. She finds delight and meaning in every day things around the home and in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Home, and belonging are large themes in her art where she works with her intuitive and spiritual heart to make paintings that give the viewer a sense of embodied placement on the earth. Beth’s work has been called Fauvist, inspiring, playful, uplifting, and calming. Whether the piece is abstract, still life, or landscape, each painting becomes a doorway into the realms of hope and meaning weaving the elements of painting and life into a cohesive whole. Beth brings her life wisdom and experience into her art and her classes by not striving for any kind of elusive perfection, but for connection and understanding.

“When we connect with our subject we find a shared experience and a common ground, we feel less isolated and more a part of all of life. We feel human! We were born with this gift of using tools and mark making, it’s extraordinary really.” The basics of drawing and mark making will never grow old to me, it helps me connect with my living environment daily; it’s how I stay in alignment with this planet.”

Artist Bio

Beth Lenco is a Nova Scotia born visual artist working in two dimensional media: watercolour, acrylic, oil, and drawing mediums on paper, canvas and wood. Educated at Mount Allison University, Art College of Kelowna, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Beth continues a daily studio practice for over 25 years. Beth’s focus is on flowers, still lives and landscapes around her home on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.