Beth Fletcher was born in Birmingham in 1981. She studied at Aberystwyth University gaining a BA in 2002 and a MA in 2004, both in Fine Art. Since beginning her degree course she has exhibited in group and solo shows all over Wales and England; from London, Birmingham and Shewsbury to Cardiff and Aberystwyth and Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw.

When living in Wales she would paint the landscape of the estuaries and the Ceredigion coast. Coastal and estuarine motifs recur in her work, embodying the qualities of space, light and movement.

"My working practice consists of interpreting visually a felt experience of landscape, describing a multi-sensory response to the shifting patterns and interactions of light, land and water and translating what I encounter into the fascinating language of paint. For me, painting is much about touch as vision, as much about feeling and memory as conscious thought and decision."

Work in the Summer exhibition 2011-

"While I was looking at some old Victorian photos the circular and oval compositions really stuck in my mind, especially as I often compose square paintings around an imaginary circle...I also wanted to reproduce that kind of dark, solemn feeling and the feeling of looking at something far away and possibly obstructed from view a little, like through a telescope or a porthole - and then that invests meaning into the thing you are looking at and there is an expectation and a kind of searching out, so that's why I've been calling the drawings Prospect as I like the double meaning of prospect as a noun being a view of a landscape and also as a verb suggesting searching out something valuable and expecting and looking forward to something, which is how I feel about landscape...prospecting for landscape like prospecting for gold."

Haven

Oil

£750

Moor, flat light

Oil

£850

Until last light

70 x 50cm Oil on linen

£750