The artist, Beth
Beth McCoy Evans began doing batik in 1989. At that time she operated a gift/gallery shop in Cuchara, Colorado which featured her paintings, hand painted clothing and accessories. After closing the shop, she was able to devote most of her time to her new passion-batik. Entirely self-taught, she experimented extensively in her studio with waxes ,dyes and a variety of fabrics. Beginning with simple decorative designs on clothing she eventually realized that she could use her painting and drawing skills to a greater degree using the batik medium.
Inspired by nature, travel, and just intriguing color and form,wherever it is found, her subjects are varied. She finds the batik process an endless challenge and still delights in the image gradually appearing on the cloth with each successive dyeing. Currently she is working on a pointillist technique in her paintings, studying the color theory used by the painters, like Seurat, and adapting it for the batik medium.
Beth has exhibited in the US and abroad at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO.,the Aspen Arts Center, the Foothills Arts Center, Golden CO, Jezebel Gallery, New Mexico, and the Gallerie Smend, Koln, Germany, to name a few. She has taught batik to children at the Colorado Academy, Denver and the LaVeta Children’s Art Workshop and adult courses at the Beacon, Hastings UK, Gallerie Smend, and with the Trinidad Arts Council, CO.
Born in 1961, Beth is originally from Maryland, but has resided in Southern Colorado for much of the past 20 years. She and her husband, Jonathan Evans, also a batik artist, divide their time between homes in the Himalayan foothills of India in Village Ayarpani and the foothills of the Rockies in Colorado City, Colorado.
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