Beth’s colorful mosaics are both eye and heart candy…joyful and expressive. Upon arriving we were instantly greeted with mosaic work on the sidewalk, gate, pathways and walls of every building, interlaced with native flowers blooming in every corner. Beth has been participating in Open Studios for 20 years, a self taught, working artist for over two decades. Spaces like the home and studio of mosaic artist Beth Purcell in Midtown. When you step out of your car at the foot of the handwritten green signs, you step into unique spaces of pure creative magic. The Open Studios Art Tour offers an intimate art purveying experience. Each with a story to tell not only through their artwork and demonstrations but also through story telling about their process, history and life. Each exists in their own little micro-climate of creativity and perspective. The artists in Santa Cruz county are as diverse as the landscape. Meandering through the traffic of Downtown, Midtown and the Westside, the wild open road of the north coast and the switchbacks of the Santa Cruz Mountains we found ourselves visiting a handful of Open Studio spaces, many with several artists exhibiting. The roads were diverse and the artists were many as we ventured out on the North County Open Studios Art Tour last Sunday.
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