{"id":76834,"date":"2024-12-27T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=76834"},"modified":"2024-12-27T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:05:12","slug":"feature-artist-beth-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-beth-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Feature Artist:<\/strong> Beth Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_76832\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76832\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76832\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio-1024x399.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio-810x315.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Trio-1140x444.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sketch (three sides). Beth Elliott, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Beth Elliott\u2019s career in landscape architecture requires precision. She thinks in terms of geometry. \u201cMy expertise is in hardscaping the garden,\u201d she says, \u201cdesigning the space, the walls, the drainage, anything built in and how it relates to the home. My art is where I can pursue my creations with my own hands and without the precision of architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76829\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76829\" class=\"wp-image-76829\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Dear-One-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Dear-One-copy-2.jpg 738w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Dear-One-copy-2-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Dear-One-copy-2-472x1024.jpg 472w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Dear-One-copy-2-708x1536.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dear One. Beth Elliott, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She grew up in Virginia in a family that valued math and science over artistic pursuits, and when the time came she chose to study biochemistry. While doing post-doctorate research on the microscopic architecture inside cells, however, she also felt a pull towards the larger spaces of the natural world, her earliest passion as a child. She decided to go back to school at night to study landscape architecture, not knowing then whether she would even like the field. It turns out she did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLandscape architecture has been an incredible merge of creative projects balanced with the precision and organization to get them built,\u201d she says. \u201cI love doing all of those things. I love being outside and I love giving that gift of a serenely designed space to a client and, of course, surrounding as many people as I can with plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She discovered a penchant and a talent for art when taking the prerequisite drawing class required by the landscape architecture program. \u201cIt thrilled me that I could draw,\u201d Elliott says. \u201cI remember a self-portrait\u2014that I just knew would be awful because I had never really drawn\u2014turned out to look like me! What an amazing thing to discover. It made me realize that everyone should create; it\u2019s so good to make, to build, to discover, to garden, to tend. Even if you never show a soul, it\u2019s so good for humans to make art. I think humans were meant to create.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having discovered that she could create and, what\u2019s more, enjoyed the process, Elliott, true to her sense of spatial organization and design, was drawn to 3-D art: sculpture, at first, then clay. \u201cI found that clay had a lineage, and that teachers passed practices on to their students and mentors,\u201d she says, \u201cand I was hooked on being able to make things with my hands that required learning chemistry and the nuances of clay, and firing. Clay is also something you can only build upon when you are ready, having succeeded at a prior skill with it, and I loved that feeling of accomplishment and challenge.\u201d Her materials include native clay stoneware or porcelain, slips, engobes, wire, wax, wood, thread and cloth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76830\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76830\" class=\"wp-image-76830\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2-810x625.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-Spring-Thing-copy-2-1140x880.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring Thing. Beth Elliott, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She moved to Western North Carolina five years ago and that move changed her, she says, \u201cfrom being more restrained to now using my full art brain, as I call it, without running it through my design brain.\u201d At Odyssey ClayWorks, she found herself among mentors and colleagues who encouraged exploration. \u201cThe clay community is a strong community of people who share and seem to genuinely be happy when someone is interested in clay, and it feels great to have discovered this,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Exploration and letting go of expectations of what might sell and what others might like or expect to see opened up her creative mind, created resonance within and helped her recognize her viewpoint and style. \u201cSometimes a wash of slip and a tiny carve or pencil mark is all I want and other times, I like to fill the vessel\u2019s surface with markings. But I also favor the tension that asymmetry or additions to the vessel with clay or other materials can bring to the piece, which feels like my internal personality waving at you through the piece,\u201d she says. \u201cI live for the composition of the story on the clay and view the clay as a narrative or as the processing of a thought or mood. Later, when the piece is finished, I hope that the viewer can see things in it that they relate to as well even if it\u2019s different than my intentions.\u201d The markings her clay pieces exhibit are, she says, \u201cmy private and public lexicon and response to the external world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76831\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76831\" class=\"wp-image-76831\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2-1024x959.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2-768x719.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2-810x759.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Feature-Artist-Beth-Elliott-winged-object-one-side-copy-2-1140x1068.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winged Object. Beth Elliott, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Creative expression for her, Elliott says, is powerful and healing for brain and body. \u201cThe first time I had a garden was the first time I experienced peace,\u201d she says. \u201cI was truly in the moment and present. I had not had that ability or feeling until tending a garden. It became an obsession\u2014if one can combine peace with obsessive tendencies. The same thing happens to me when I make art. I have peace. The stress falls away and I can only think about or see what is in front of me.\u201d And, she adds, \u201cMy art practice is what I have that is truly mine, not client-based and not precision-based, and that way of working is healing for my mind and hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more or make an appointment to visit Beth Elliott\u2019s home studio at <a href=\"http:\/\/BethElliottStudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BethElliottStudio.com<\/a>, and follow her on Instagram (<a href=\"http:\/\/instgram.com\/BethElliottStudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BethElliottStudio<\/a>). Find her work in Asheville at Gallery COR, Torched AVL, the brand-new Joan Awake, and online at ArtPlay Studio, and in Greenville, SC at Art and Light Gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy expertise is in hardscaping the garden,\u201d says Feature Artist Beth Elliott, \u201cdesigning the space, the walls, the drainage, anything built in and how it relates to the home. 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