Palette Eight

Original Artwork by Beth Inglish

This piece is part of my ongoing Palette Painting Series, created from the paint that naturally builds up while I work on other paintings. Instead of throwing paint away, I use a canvas as my palette, allowing layers of color, texture, and movement to accumulate over time.

Once the surface feels complete, I step back and look for what wants to emerge. In this piece, an iris revealed itself through the layers. The black and white linework was added intuitively, following the shapes already present in the paint, allowing the flower to come forward from the history of marks beneath it.

These works are about transformation, sustainability, and discovery. Every color in the background carries the energy of other paintings, making each piece a quiet record of creative process and renewal.

Artist Bio
Beth Inglish is an expressive abstract and mixed-media artist whose work explores movement, emotion, and healing through intuitive mark-making. Her paintings translate embodied experience into layered visual language, inviting connection, release, and reflection.