This Month in the Gallery

Beverly Schirmeier, an award winning artist, holds a Bachelors of Fine Art from Wayne State University as well as being an alumnus from the Lyme Art Academy. She holds Elected Artist status in numerous art societies on the East coast. She has been the President of the Madison Art Society for eleven years and Secretary, Vice President and President of the Lyme Art Association.

Schirmeier’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries, public buildings, and in collaboration with other artists and in solo shows. She says she loves capturing the light in plein air paintings done on location and still life subjects. Her paintings, created in both oil and in pastels, reside in numerous collections and can be seen in regional art club shows and various other venues. 

Having moved to the Long Island shoreline in 2022 from New Mexico, I’m still taken by the stunning contrast between these coastal environments and the high desert landscapes where I’ve worked for so many years.

Colors, shapes, textures and the light of the landscape are my inspirations while the printmaking process of Reduction Linocut is my medium of choice to bring these inspirations to life.

Living and traveling overseas and the US have given me a wellspring of colors and images and those very different places are evident in this show. As the print comes to life, the final product may scarcely resemble the landscape or design I started with. I constantly adjust the shapes and colors depending on what occurred when the last color was applied and if the print is progressing in the direction I want it to. It’s a continuous exploratory process and each print is a new challenge.