Beatrice Findlay

Beatrice Findlay lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions across North America and internationally. Solo exhibitions include the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), Fordham University at Lincoln Center (New York), Torrance Art Museum (California), and a traveling exhibition in four museums in Poland. Her work is held in over 150 public and private collections. Findlay’s commissioned works have been created for individuals and organizations across three continents, reflecting her interest in cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration. Born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1941, she obtained a BFA from the University of Manitoba and then studied independently in Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, and New York. Immigrating to the United States in 1976, Findlay holds dual citizenship.


Artist Statement

In my paintings I merge abstraction with figurative and landscape forms as a means of expressing both the physical and the spiritual parts of life. The works vary in their balance of abstraction and figuration but in each piece I work to include the feeling of a presence of a being or life energy. My early training in classical violin, which required being able to play in any tempo, any key and express any emotion, has greatly influenced my use of color. I don’t feel limited to a particular palette but am very interested in how color, whether bright or earth tones, saturated or subdued or any of these combined, can create an emotional response. This group of paintings are part of a series of running figures which began in 1990 and is still going on.


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