Beth Fischer’s love of light, color, and art reach back to her childhood when she spent Saturdays at her beloved Cincinnati Art Museum learning to draw. As a child she loved the feel of chalk on paper as she drew trees. Later, she would be inspired by artists Mary Cassatt, Toulouse Lautrec, Maxfield Parish, William De Kooning, Andrew Wyeth, Kathe Kollwitz, and various artists and schools such as the Impressionists and Abstract Expressionism. Through her mother and the feminist movement, she was sensitized to the world’s oppressed people and would create art reflecting these...more