Beth Quarmby is a painter based in Stroud. Taking inspiration from the landscape and her journey through the wildness of her garden to her studio, she creates naive works that explore relationships. Her work is personal but ambiguous, full of texture and translucency. She began painting in 2022 and has since had four solo shows and been part of several group exhibitions.

Using instinctive mark, confident shapes and layers of colour, Beth Quarmby makes sensitive but bold paintings which serve as her correspondence with the world around her and an exploration of relationships within it, both experienced and observed.

Much of Beth's work carries themes of death and loss. She uses layers of acrylics to build images with a translucency that hints at what has come before. Memories kept in paint. She uses naïve botanicals and interacting forms as a vehicle throughout her paintings as well as frequent appearances of herself as a many handed bird. There is joyful confidence in her paintings which reflects her love and value for the creative process.