About THE ARTIST

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Beth Greene, a Connecticut native, grew up in the "quiet corner" in rural Thompson, Connecticut and began painting as a young child. Beth's bedroom walls were filled with her paintings, corner to corner, floor to ceiling. She filled her life with color and design.

     Equally fascinated with music, Beth began her piano career at 8 years old. She was classically trained and pursued a degree in music at the University of Connecticut. She taught piano for 40 years.

Beth’s husband Ron, also a Thompson native, encouraged her enthusiasm for the arts and her need to create something from nothing. While a stay at home mom for her two boys, Eric and Kevin, Beth put her " I can do that" philosophy into action and a larger than life art project was born. She built much of their first home and in the process became an accomplished designer and carpenter. For Beth, building a home is just one very big art project. The houses also became the palette she used to design and build furniture. One project led to another and building became a passion for many years.

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     Now she has set aside her power tools and is putting brush to canvas and combining her love of classical music with her love of painting, creating canvasses with big, bold, colorful, exciting, musical splashes of color. Her unique paintings are energetic and free-spirited, and she is not intimidated by size, preferring very large works. Beth and her husband now reside in Noank, Connecticut in the latest home building project, where she paints in her small, sunny studio by the water. As always, she is dedicated to her journey.

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Beth also had a very successful birdhouse business, creating custom birdhouses from photos of the buyer’s home. Today people around the world are enjoying her creations. Nails and paint were her medium and wood was her canvas. 

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