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Beth Marchant is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, she worked for several publishing companies and graphic art studios. She began a freelancing business in 1984, specializing in perspective drawings of homes for builders and developers. At the same time she started receiving commissions for watercolor portraits and pen and ink drawings of homes in and around Virginia. Additionally, in 1990 she began taking commissions for drawings of children and pets. Her portraits are not only realistic, but they also convey a true sense of the subject's character.

Every few years she accumulates enough work for a showing of her oil and watercolor landscapes. Whether color or black and white, Beth's art style is characterized by her beautiful realism and regard for the effects of light on her subjects. The works of John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and more recently John Stobart and Raymond Kinstler have greatly influenced her art. She has participated in workshops with watercolorists Robert Wade and Tom Lynch, and oil painters Roger Dale Brown, Vicki McMurry, Dawn Whitelaw and Raymond Kinstler. The workshops with Whitelaw and Kinstler have been instrumental in launching her oil portraiture.

Beth and her husband Ry, who is an attorney, own and run Six Burner Restaurant located in the Historic Fan District of Richmond, Virginia. Local artists show their work on the walls there.

Please feel free to contact Beth directly for information about commissioning a work of art.

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2008 - Accepted to the OPA's 2008 Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils
2005: One person show of watercolors, oils and drawings
2003: "Les Deux Garcons" accepted by the Virginia Watercolor Society Annual Juried Show
2002: One person show of watercolors and drawings
1999 - present: Designated artist for Historic Garden Week in Virginia
1998: One person show of pencil portraits

Member of
  Oil Painters of America
  Portrait Society of America
  The Virginia Watercolor Society
  The Jack Woodson Sketch Club