Beah Pedersen
Paintings
My paintings are abstract and sometimes expressionistic. I use acrylic and inks, focusing on color.
Directions to Studio #2 at 62 Pine Tree Close, The Sea Ranch: Hwy 1 to Sonoma mile marker 51.0, turn inland on Moonraker Road, up hill, turn left on Crows Nest. Continue 0.3 miles, turn left on Pine Tree Close, 1st house on the left.
Studio Tour Hours:
August 29-30 & Sept. 5-6
11 am to 5 pm
Closed Labor Day Monday
My studio is open all year by appointment only
The Clearing — Sea Ranch, California
I paint in acrylics and inks. Color is how I think — it carries what I'm reaching for before I have words for it.
The work begins in the body. I don't plan. I discover what the painting is by making it. Sometimes the whole body is in it — wide, gestural, bold. Sometimes the hand is close and the world is held small. The work dictates scale, not habit.
What I'm trying to catch is a flash — the moment something ordinary suddenly radiates. A face. A tree in a certain light. The space between two people. The world being unmistakably, undeniably here. It's always the same thing: presence itself.
My paintings are abstract with traces of the real. A viewer can sense the source — feel that something was present during the making — without being handed a legible image. The world is transformed, not erased. Color is the primary language. It generates feeling directly, before any image is read.
I work from the Northern California coast, where the natural world is not scenery but event — alive, specifically, right now, in this light. The paintings reach for that same quality: warm, present, full.
The work is always becoming.