A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Beverly Wilson began painting lessons at the young age of 11 and continued art studies through college. Beverly holds a Fine Arts Degree from UCLA where she studied with noted artists Richard Diebenkorn and Jan Stussy. Soon after graduating, she spent a year in Italy, selling her sketches as she traveled through Tuscany and Umbria. It was her love of the wine country and the tranquillity of rural life which brought her to the Napa Valley in 1983.
The source of inspiration for much of her work is the beauty and simplicity of everyday life. She is impressed by the more obscure and overlooked subjects and attempts to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by the use of vibrant color and bold composition. The combination of reality and imagination work together to capture the moment. What is implied is just as important as what is obvious.
