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Beverly Berwick Art Collections

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Artwork by Beverly Berwick

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Beverly Berwick

Beverly Berwick When I think of my artistic life, I picture a colorful map with the bright blues and greens of the Pacific Northwest calling attention to my childhood in Portland, Oregon and then my undergraduate years in English Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Alongside my studies, I dabbled in oil and pastel but found a major creative outlet in photography, focusing on landscapes and animals.
I moved to San Francisco, where I worked on my master’s degree in education. Then I joined Pan American Airlines as a flight attendant and my world expanded. I routinely travelled around the globe snapping photos and improving my eye for composition. One day I landed in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and the map of my personal and artistic life changed once again. I met and married an American diplomat there and we soon moved to Bogota︠, Colombia, where we spent two years high in the Andes. Inspired by an artist there, I took up oil painting and enjoyed depicting the coffee plantations, the peasants in their vivid wool ruanas (ponchos), and the lush canyons and hot springs. From my mentor, I learned to focus on a center of interest and simplify my use of color for dramatic effect.
Next, we moved to Tokyo. For three years we took in the sights of everything from Shinto shrines framed by elegant irises to sake︠-drinking nature lovers, bowing down in awe of the cherry blossoms and the fireflies. I learned to greatly admire the single-minded devotion of artists to one chosen field – it could be ceramics or ikebana (flower-arranging) or possibly chigiri-e (torn paper collage art) or sumi-e (brush painting with ink). They copied masters for years and then branched out to create their own original works. I studied sumi-e under a Japanese master and deepened my love of this art …and all things Japanese. during this period of time.
Way led on to way and our growing family moved to San Diego, where I’ve lived since 1977 teaching high school English and when I’ve had the time, painting watercolor, which is similar in some ways to sumi-e. I was lucky to receive a Fulbright scholarship to study the performing and visual arts in Mexico in the summer of 2006. I concentrated on Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, admiring their depiction of indigenous figures and dynamic symbols, which has informed my own approach to art since then.
In 2009, I joined San Diego Watercolor Society and before I knew it I found myself the SDWS Gallery Director. Immersed in the spirit and the fun of watercolor, I was hungry to learn more. I attended workshops and classes by Mary Aslin, Fealing Lin, Stan Miller, Shuang Li, Annette Paquet, Elaine Harvey, and Drew Bandish.
I’ve exhibited and sold paintings throughout San Diego and entered works in the SDWS International Exhibition and the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies Exhibit in Las Vegas in 2012. I’ve had the pleasure of winning People’s Choice in several exhibits and a number of place awards.
It’s been a long journey from the Pacific Northwest to Latin America, the Far East, and now Southern California; but, for me, it’s all about the journey, as I sometimes stride and often stumble toward self-discovery in watercolor.