Beth Sover: Galaxy Girl

Beth Stover is an artist whose work integrates her childhood sense of wonder with a refined sense of spirituality. In her work, Beth explores themes of spiritual longing and through her depiction of her Galaxy Girls series she expands upon that spiritual vision with an exploration of cosmic themes, such as astrology and universal consciousness.

A successful graphic designer and illustrator for the past twenty years, Beth continues to expand her creative vision through her work. A loving mother, she incorporates the lessons learned through motherhood with memories of her own childhood as a Kansas farm girl, a childhood filled with a longing for union and knowledge of the greater world at large.

But one lesson motherhood provided her is one that most people would choose not to learn. Beth's second child died in utero after a perfect pregnancy. A beautiful perfectly formed and fully developed child, Lehna Jordann Brewer was brought into the world stillborn.

Grief is a transformative experience. After Lehna's death, Beth began working through her sense of loss with the tools at hand, in her case, canvas and brush. She then suddenly became conscious of butterflies all around her and through a series of synchronicities she began to equate the beauty and rebirth of this fabulous creature with her darling lost child.

Always drawn to the bright colors and interaction of music, color, and movement she observed as a child at the circus, Beth transforms that vision while using that same color palette in her work today. Calliopes, dancing bears, clowns and those daring acrobats of the flying trapeze inspire her. She strives to bring forth that sense of beauty and innocence, in conjunction with her longing for spiritual transcendence, through her use of color and her depiction of movement and form.

Through her many travels to Europe and throughout the United States, as well as her continual exploration of the world within, she is well equipped to comment on the alchemical dictum as above, so below. Inspired also by her love of techno and world music, she translates the rhythm she feels into a fully realized vision of a greater more beautiful world, a world where spirit and movement and cosmic consciousness merge. It is through her art that she lives most fully and through her life that she most fully expresses her vision and her art.