Beau Wild Acrylic Daytona Beach Artist

 

Art League of Daytona Beach

433 South Palmetto Avenue

Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

Tel: 386-947-7103

Beau Wild Acrylic Daytona Beach Artist

A “people watcher”. Several questions intrigued me then and continue to intrigue me now – why do people do what they do? What motivated their actions and reactions? What makes us all “tick”? Whether it is an elderly woman’s feeling of isolation, the outsider’s anxiety when courting a new friend, the conflicting joy and sadness of the surrogate mother, the unforgotten lives of those who have passed, these deeply empathetic connections are sensitive glimpses.

Recently, I am compelled to address some of our most pressing and often most contentious social and political problems within the topic of women’s issues such as domestic violence, body size acceptance, and a closer look into our indigenous women and girls who are disproportionately targets for hatred, violence, kidnapping and murder.

Whether I create work in a non-objective or figurative abstract format, these personal glimpses open a small window through which I can hopefully increase understanding and inspire change for the benefit of all of us.

A native Floridian, Beau Wild was educated in occupational therapy at Tufts University and in painting at the Museum School / Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. Dual roles as therapist and painter spanned decades and each enhanced the success of the other.

Beau returned to the childhood hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1983 after 22 years in New England. Since then, Beau has shown work in nationwide art festivals, competitions and museums across the world and, in 2015, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award during a competition in Cincinnati, OH.

Today, Wild paints daily in her studio on Rose Bay in Port Orange, FL.