{"title":"Beth Shields","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"soul-journey","title":"Soul Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoul Journey carries a strong sense of movement and emotional release. Beth Shields works with charcoal, graphite, and acrylic in a very physical and instinctive way, allowing gesture, texture, and gravity to become part of the composition itself. The deep blacks and earthy reds create a striking tension against the soft, atmospheric background, giving the work both intensity and openness. Rather than describing a specific place or image, the painting feels like an internal landscape - expressive, layered, and deeply felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53721906544950,"sku":null,"price":2400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_4152866a-063e-4e95-877b-a3d3eaef7b39.jpg?v=1772083592"},{"product_id":"flight-shields","title":"Flight","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pale ground carries a dense mass of charcoal and grey sweeping diagonally from upper left to lower right, with bursts of burnt orange and rust exploding through it and white flecks scattered across the surface like light through smoke. Fine drips fall from the mass downward. Shields captures something genuinely airborne here, the composition held in the moment just before dispersal, full of energy that has not yet decided where to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53728469680438,"sku":null,"price":2300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_f0950c41-407d-4ec4-b4a1-dfe16f10a989.jpg?v=1772083645"},{"product_id":"a-moment-in-time","title":"A Moment in Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a pale, almost white ground, dark charcoal marks gather and coil across the upper portion of the canvas, dripping in fine vertical lines toward the lower half. A loose spiral of graphite sits to the left, and a scattering of deep rust-red spots falls across the lower right like scattered embers. The palette is restrained - black, blush, white, and that single note of red - and the composition feels caught between stillness and sudden movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53728872792374,"sku":null,"price":2300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_6_73bba430-5b1f-473b-aed1-5053b08c5385.jpg?v=1772089256"},{"product_id":"heart-and-soul","title":"Heart and Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003eA diptych presented as a single wide composition on a warm sandy ground. Bold masses of chartreuse yellow-green, deep black, vivid red, cobalt blue, and warm orange spread across the surface with full commitment, each color holding its own territory while the whole canvas pulses with collective energy. Fine drips of red and black fall vertically from the masses, and loose scribbled lines scatter across the lower portions of both panels. Shields brings everything here - the palette is as open and unguarded as the title, and the scale gives the work a physical presence that fills the room around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53728890978614,"sku":null,"price":4300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_3_4d97027f-512f-4bc0-87f3-62db45e17b74.jpg?v=1772089832"},{"product_id":"i-rise","title":"I Rise","description":"\u003cp\u003eA warm sandy ground is overtaken by a mass of deep navy and black that sweeps across the upper left, with vivid teal streaks cutting through it and dripping downward in long vertical lines. A burst of amber and burnt orange sits at the upper right, and smaller teal splashes scatter across the surface below. Shields works with gestural force and a painter's instinct for atmospheric drama, and this large canvas has the feeling of something breaking through rather than breaking apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729013006646,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_4_9eb77a87-f134-42a3-80bf-977503acff77.jpg?v=1772091680"},{"product_id":"hope-2","title":"Hope #2","description":"\u003cp\u003eHope #2 shares its name with an earlier piece, but stands completely on its own. Where the first Hope felt expansive and atmospheric, this one is more concentrated - the rich copper form pushing forward with real urgency against that signature teal, a single fierce dot of red at its heart like an ember refusing to go out. The graphite spirals to the right and the dark coil below create a sense of movement, of something gathering itself. At 24 by 24 inches, it's an intimate work that carries surprising force. Sometimes hope is quiet like that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729027391798,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_3_59504719-69f4-4bd5-adf7-c14aefa59a8f.jpg?v=1772092950"},{"product_id":"the-dance-of-time-diptych","title":"The Dance of Time Diptych","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dance of Time arrives as a diptych - and the format is everything. Two canvases, each with their own energy, yet inseparable from each other. The deep cobalt blue anchors the composition like a fixed point in time, while everything around it - the golden trails, the red bursts, the graphite spirals and black cascades - moves with complete freedom. It has the feel of a performance still in progress, caught somewhere between structure and improvisation. At 48 by 60 inches in acrylic, oil and graphite on raw canvas, the scale gives the composition room to breathe - and you feel every inch of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729035616566,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_7_4686b500-620e-4851-9ff7-94774555cad2.jpg?v=1772093071"},{"product_id":"the-journey","title":"The Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Journey has the feel of something caught mid-passage. Three distinct forces move across the raw canvas - the warm copper form upper left, the dense black vortex at center, the teal breaking through on the right. They don't resolve into each other. They coexist, each holding its own ground, connected only by the drips and splatter that trace the path between them. At 56 by 44 inches, Shields gives the composition real breathing room, and the raw canvas ground does much of the work - open, unfinished, still in motion. Exactly as a journey should feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729048428854,"sku":null,"price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/beth_96760cca-f08c-4df6-b5b3-7e29a802946b.jpg?v=1772581813"},{"product_id":"chartreuse-mantra","title":"Chartreuse Mantra","description":"\u003cp\u003eChartreuse Mantra moves across the canvas like a breath of fresh air. That luminous chartreuse sweeps diagonally from upper right to lower left with real momentum, while the graphite spirals and marks above and around it feel like the rhythm of a repeated thought - restless, searching, alive. The warm sand ground absorbs everything beautifully, giving the composition a natural, unhurried quality despite all the energy within it. At 62 by 80 inches, it's a generous, open work - one that brings lightness and movement to any space it inhabits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729059143990,"sku":null,"price":8000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_3_9def15d2-2d52-4acb-9c6c-17ed9e3cb9c2.jpg?v=1772669424"},{"product_id":"happiness-shields","title":"Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003eHappiness is refreshingly unforced. Against a warm sand ground, white forms tumble freely through the center, gold trails arc and scatter with complete abandon, and the graphite marks loop and dash like handwriting in a private journal. Nothing heavy, nothing labored. The raw canvas breathes through every mark, giving the whole composition a lightness that feels entirely genuine. At 72 by 82 inches this is a commanding presence - and yet the feeling it gives you is one of ease. Which, if you think about it, is exactly what happiness does to a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729060978998,"sku":null,"price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original_3_c94a6d87-a0b5-462c-a5b6-43df8cea35f4.jpg?v=1772094374"},{"product_id":"everything-all-the-time-beth-shields","title":"Everything, all the time","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePlease note: This work is shipped unstretched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAt 60 by 90 inches, this painting is genuinely monumental. 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This 40 by 40 inch piece is pure heat , deep reds, magenta, orange, and acid yellow colliding on raw canvas with an intensity that feels almost visceral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBeth works directly on unprimed canvas here, which matters. The surface drinks in the paint, giving everything a rawness and immediacy you don't get on a prepared ground. The charcoal marks underneath push through the layers , you can feel the drawing beneath the painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe composition erupts diagonally, with splattered whites and yellows cutting across like sparks. It's explosive but not random. There's real control beneath the chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAt 40 by 40 it's intimate compared to her larger works, but it doesn't feel small. 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Those sweeping loops and frantic scribbles radiating outward feel urgent - like handwriting from someone who has something important to say and can't get it down fast enough. There's a fearlessness to the mark-making that matches the title perfectly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54039509532982,"sku":null,"price":4200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original-_4.jpg?v=1779202363"},{"product_id":"much-ado","title":"Much Ado","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePlease note: This work is shipped unstretched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe painting moves like a burst of weather crossing a wide sky. A warm field of gold anchors the upper left, and from there the composition breaks open: gestural black marks scatter and drip across a pale ground, joined by splashes of acid yellow, orange, and a vivid red rectangle that holds the center with quiet authority. Energy and its expression are at the core of Beth Shields' practice, and that commitment is fully visible here. Nothing feels labored. The marks are fast, physical, and completely committed, with the kind of confidence that only comes from decades of taking real risks on the canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eShields trained at UCLA and has been working from her studio in Santa Cruz for nearly thirty years, and the California light seems woven into this painting's DNA. She has spoken about her work as a search rather than a statement, a quest for something indefinable that she pursues through the act of making itself. That restlessness is exactly what you feel standing in front of this piece. The scrawled mark near the upper right reads almost like a thought mid-sentence, proof that the painting captured a moment of genuine searching rather than a resolved conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54091001889078,"sku":null,"price":6200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/NEWBETH.jpg?v=1780501929"},{"product_id":"arabesque","title":"Arabesque","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePlease note: This work is shipped unstretched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBeth Shields has said that energy and its expression are the core of her artistic practice, and this painting gives that statement its fullest meaning. The looping marks along the top have the quality of handwriting, personal and urgent, made by someone thinking out loud rather than composing carefully. Shields has spoken of not always knowing where her art comes from, only that it is there waiting, and that if she does not go looking through work and risk, it will not come into existence. That willingness to follow the painting wherever it leads is exactly what you feel here. The rust blooms at center feel almost geological, as if something ancient surfaced through the motion and quietly held its ground. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.centralcoastartists.org\/santa-cruz\/beth-shields\" class=\"group\/tag relative h-[18px] rounded-full inline-flex items-center overflow-hidden -translate-y-px cursor-pointer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"relative transition-colors h-full max-w-[180px] overflow-hidden px-1.5 inline-flex items-center font-small rounded-full border-0.5 border-border-300 bg-bg-200 group-hover\/tag:bg-accent-900 group-hover\/tag:border-accent-100\/60\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-nowrap text-text-300 break-all truncate font-normal group-hover\/tag:text-text-200\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/beth-shields\"\u003eBrowse all works by Beth Shields\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54091030102326,"sku":null,"price":4800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/NEWBETH2.jpg?v=1780502710"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.artscout.pro\/collections\/beth-shields.oembed?page=2","provider":"Art Scout","version":"1.0","type":"link"}