Beth Bjorklund likes to paint fruit and vegetables and people she loves.  She’s working on 32 individual 8x10 portraits of her family and in-laws that will hang above her mantle in a 4’x8’ grid.

 

She attended American River College and Chico State University to get her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Design and in Art.

 

She made her living as a designer/illustrator when she graduated in 1980, designing logos and business systems, package design, newspaper advertising design and layout.  But painting was always a part of her life.  She became a wife and mother who took up painting again seriously after 25 years of raising kids and keeping house.

 

“There are so many great things to paint,” she says, “and when I paint I thank God for the beauty in everything, for my ability, and for the time I have to paint.