Background Information
Beth Wolff is a nature photographer with an artist’s sensibility formed by her background in the fine arts. After receiving her degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, she pursued traditional painting in both watercolor and acrylic mediums. Gradually an interest in abstraction emerged and after a period of experimentation, the artist began to cut-up her paintings and reassemble the strips into a weaving, a style she called “watercolor weavings”. In 1999 a renewed interest in photography resulted in being included in the Millennium Photo Project ( http//www.millenniumphoto.com ). The Millennium Photo project, was a celebration of the new century recorded by selected photographers across the world. One of her submitted photos, “Young Girl Dancing” was included in the time capsule. As Wolff started to travel the world, the photographic medium began to replace the painted images. The unknown places and people she encountered became the focus of her work. Wolff also documented wildlife, insects and any unexpected imagery that caught her eye. The camera became a tool to record what lies beneath the surface. A need to examine the world through the micro prisms of macro photography emerged. As one critic wrote “With her lens, Wolff records moments often missed, a small green frog hidden under the leaves of a tomato plant or a Koi Fish seemingly miming for the camera”. The works displayed on this web site and the link other site are a small selection of the watercolor weavings, acrylic weavings and photographs created by Wolff.