About

My Work

There's no photograph of the life that used to be here. Just a color that won't sit still. A texture with no clean edge. That's the closest thing to true.

My work is about being witnessed — having a moment, a place, a version of yourself acknowledged as having mattered.

We all carry places inside us that no longer exist except in us: a childhood house, a firefly-lit summer, a self you've outgrown.

Painting is how I stand in one of those rooms — mine or someone else's — and say: this happened, someone was here, it counted.

Here is why it matters: witnessing isn't just about the past. It's what lets us move forward. Leaving an old room for a new one takes a kind of recklessness — you can't hold on to both at once.

At some point you let go before you feel ready.

That's why I paint abstractly instead of realistically.

A finished, polished picture would lie — it would pretend the room is still whole. Layers and unresolved color tell the truth: most of what mattered doesn't come back intact. What's left are fragments.

I'm not asking you to see my room. I'm asking you to notice you have one too. The painting is how I offer mine — not explained, just left for you to sit with.

Beverly paints large-scale abstract work that moves the way memory does — in fragments, layers, color that won't quite sit still. Her process is physical: hardware-store brushes, broken sticks, rags, her own hands, dripping, scraping, wiping, and pulling paint across the surface until something true is left behind. She works in acrylic, oil, soft wax, and paper.

She grew up in rural Nebraska, where she'd disappear for hours into the open prairie — a landscape big enough to get lost in, and one that still shapes the scale and freedom of her work today.

Beverly began painting in Santa Fe in 2018. Wanting other artists to have that same experience of finding themselves in the work, she opened Santa Fe Artist Getaway the next year, moving her studio practice and teaching from Omaha to New Mexico.

Her coaching helps artists leave behind what they've outgrown and step recklessly into what's next — encouraging them toward their next best work, not their safest one. She leads workshops in abstract expressionism built around painting big, free, and unguarded, along with arts-based team-building workshops for non-artists.

Beverly paints and teaches in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her art is held in collections including the University of Nebraska, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, the Wilson Performing Arts Center, and Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado. She is featured in Wild Lands, published by Jen Tough Gallery, and has shown with InArt Gallery, Anderson O'Brien Gallery, Jen Tough Gallery, Art Santa Fe, Strata Gallery, Gallery 1516, Visionary Arts Collective, Bemis Center, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Norfolk Arts Center, and the Nebraska Governor's Residence.