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About the Artist & Artist Statement

About the Artist

Beth Crews Rommel
Beth Crews Rommel

Born and raised in New Orleans Rommel was introduced to art by parents who loved museums and gallery trips. Her K-12 school encouraged the arts, where she learned to throw clay pots and where she was taught patience and attention to detail by Helen Trivigno, gifted Romanian enamel artist. “Mrs. Trivigno instructed me to work on one large pencil drawing for several weeks. All pencil strokes had to go in the same direction. What discipline that was. I was 15 years old and had no idea how valuable patience would prove to be.”

While living in New Orleans the Crews family would pack the car each Friday night and leave the formality of the old city for the farm life. An hour and a half drive would take them to Folsom, Louisiana to an old house with cats and dogs, cows and chickens, ducks and horses, quilts and barns. The family gathered eggs, rode horses, herded cattle, and rode in a jeep learning about rural agricultural life. Having lived in so many different cities this is the home Rommel holds dear; there was tranquility, love, friends, and family. (In addition to Louisiana, she has lived in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Fort Worth area, in Texas, Knoxville, TN, Oviedo, FL, Decatur and Epworth, GA, London, GB and Santa Fe, New Mexico.)

Rommel graduated with a B.F.A. in Studio Art with an emphasis in Communication Design from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville after two years at the University of Texas in Austin. This prepared her for a career in advertising and public relations while she moved with her family throughout Texas and to Florida.

With small children at home, she developed an interest in children’s literature and illustration. As a member of Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) she wrote and illustrated her own stories for young readers. Melvin Fine Mouse: First Day of School, a rhyming story, for the youngest reader is one of them.

After the passing of her mother in early 2016 Rommel was in a serious car accident where her car was forced off the highway by a large truck. The car flipped back over front and rolled sideways leaving her and her husband trapped in their now battered Subaru on a Memorial Day in Satsuma, Louisiana. With a broken sternum and ribs, and time to think, Rommel thought through her options.

She has explored flying people in bright patterned clothing, a 100-day watercolor challenge, oils, acrylics, birds, horses, portraits, and cows. Rommel’s sense of joy and playfulness has been evident in her work at all times.

Her folk-art Rainbow Bridge pieces are a new addition. They are available through commission by contacting Rommel.


art in situ

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Morning Walk
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Queen Bee
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Throw Me A Line
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Cowboy
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Ladies at the Beach
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Sailor
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Buzz
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Whale In Situ

Artist Statement

When my depiction of something can bring strong emotion I feel such gratitude. The mystery of what transpires between my hand and my head has worked. To communicate with a viewer is a gift from God.

My art is a remembrance of the people, animals and places in my personal visual dictionary. I have been blessed to see so much variety, beauty and wonder in my life.

I have been fortunate to have wonderful art instructors and professors who encouraged my choices of subject matter and taught the fun of painting. Some of them were Lynn Whipple with her joyful creation of artwork and Carl Sublett with his eye and European trained hand for landscape and color. The instruction I had at an earlier age taught me to really look and see and to notice detail everywhere.

Beth Rommel is my new jam. If you’re not on her psychedelic-folk art-cat lover train, I’m sorry, you’re an elementary lepton…Get your kicks art fans and get onboard.”

-H.D. Chattanooga, TN

How could I not include that summation in my artist statement?


RESUME

Beth Crews Rommel
beth@bethrommel.com
http://www.bethrommel.com

Education

Studied at University of Texas, Austin: Studio Art
Graduated from University of Tennessee, Knoxville with B.F.A. in Studio Art
Attended further classes and workshops with Carl Embrey at San Antonio Art Institute,
Portrait classwork: Dallas,
Crealde School: Winter Park, FL,
Callanwolde: Atlanta, GA,
on line studies with Carla Sonheim, Lynn Whipple, Cat Bennett

Exhibitions and Publications

2021
2019 to 2020
Blue Ridge Arts Center
Wild Oats and Billy Goats
S.E. Contemporary and Folk Art Show
Gallery artist – Decatur, GA
2017 to 2020High Country ArtGallery artist – Blue Ridge, GA
2017 PublicationBrookhaven Buzz,
April 2017
Decatur Dispatch,
April 2017
2015 to presentPea Ridge KitchenOne woman exhibition ongoing
2013Oregon Shakespeare Festival Director portraits “My English Breath..”
2012Emory University Quadrangle MagazineFeatures World Shakespeare Project portraits of co-directors
2012Spring Mingle SCBWIFirst place illustration competition
2011Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GALittle Things Mean A Lot
2011Pour for Prevention, Sacramento, CAExhibit raising awareness of child abuse
2011Billboard Art Project, Savannah, GAPaintings exhibited in 24 hour event
2011Pomfret Center, CTDynamic Duo Collaboration with artist MK Shaw
2010Gallery at Avalon Island Juried ShowAward of Merit
2010Artistree Co-op,   Orlando, FLOne woman show, artist of the month
2010Casselberry Art House Seminole CountyFeatured artist of the month
2009Gallery at Avalon Island Award of Merit  Artists Registry.com juried show
2009Trinity Preparatory School,
Winter Park, FL
Juried Art Bazaar, also in 2010
2009Art House Co-op,
Atlanta, GA
Sketchbook Project, traveling exhibit
2009Gallery on First,
Sanford, FL
Studio and gallery artist
2009Gallery on First,
Sanford, FL
Hot Summer Nights group show
2008First Thursday,
Orlando, FL
Orlando Museum of Art boutique: Rojo and Women in Art juried exhibits
1996Muse Interiors, Colleyville, TXFeatured artist: Decorator Showhouse 1996
1996HEB,TX  Arts OrganizationWinner 3 dimensional art award

Private Collections

Mr. and Mrs. S. Shackelford: N.Y., New York
Mr. and Mrs. D. Higgins: Calgary, Alberta
Ms. A. McSweeney: Davis, CA
Mr. and Mrs. H. DeHart: Chattanooga, TN.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson: St. Simon’s Island, GA
Mr. and Mrs. D. Johnson: Whitefish , MT
Mr. and Mrs. W.N. Rives: Columbus, OH
Mrs. C. Lowe: San Antonio, TX
Private Collectors Atlanta, GA, Decatur, GA, Maitland, FL, Washington, D.C., Houston, TX

Volunteer Work 

Stride Ahead Equine Therapy Decatur, GA
Decatur Art Festival
Trinity Preparatory School
Fort Worth Christian School
Colleyville Elementary
Morse Museum of Art
Orlando Museum of Art

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