"Walnut Tree Swing" Beth Bobbitt

Beth Bobbitt, Bella Vista, AR

Walnut Tree Swing, 2026

Encaustic and mixed media on wood

16 x 36”

My work explores the intersection of art, nature, and well-being. As an encaustic artist, I use beeswax, pigment, and tree resin to create mythic landscapes—melting, carving, fusing, and scraping back layers help me understand the ongoing transformation around and within us. Organic materials root each piece in nature, while rich colors, flashes of gold, and waxy layers of text and symbols weave stories of history, hope, and resilience. Driven by curiosity, my work poses visual questions about the places and ideas that shape me, and I invite the viewer to pause, look closely, feel, and reflect on their place in a shifting world. My art practice is charged by the words of my favorite poet-- Mary Oliver: “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”