“Beth Palser- Stylistically Innovative Works of Art”

Beth Palser is the creator of a unique style of painting called, Graphic Realism. Her background in Graphic Design and her years spent working for a print-maker doing color separations for the screens, played a huge influence in Palser’s painting style. The combination of these methods and her early years painting in oils, gave way for this sophisticated Watercolor style. Her paintings have dimension, and the fractured brush strokes demonstrating a clean graphic quality, emit emotion from the viewer. Texture, contrast, detail and vibrant color are elements which have become signatures in her paintings. Palser’s paints a variety of subject from Landscapes to the Urban scenes of Philadelphia to the many beaches around the US and Caribbean where she vacationed. Her Subjects may vary, but her Style is consistent and evident in each painting.

Palser received numerous awards for her watercolors from prestigious national juried groups like Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in Manhattan, The Pennsylvania & Baltimore Watercolor Societies and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors. She has also  achieved Signature Membership Status at the Catherine Lorillard, CLWACC in 2011 and Baltimore Watercolor Society, BWS in 2025. During her 35 year career as a painter, Palser has exhibited in Solo,Two Person and Group Shows, over 100 Group Invitational Shows and more than 350 Juried shows throughout the Mid-Atlantic States. Her art is included in corporate collections such as University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson Hospital, McGraw Hill Publishing, Astra Zeneca, Dexel University, SouthCo Inc. and Private collections throughout the United States and abroad.  

“Viewers are attracted to my watercolors because it’s Singular. My approach to this traditional medium is painted in a manner like silk-screen printmaking. From the detailed drawing to all the different stages in between, my style takes a considerable amount of patience, time and planning. Whether it’s the the peeling bark on a tree, the stone structure of a building, the curling wave crashing onto the sand or the rolling clouds over a farm field, in all these things I see light, shadow and color. This is my inspiration to paint and to try and capture on paper what I felt when I viewed my surroundings.” -Beth Palser