Bethany Mabee is an abstract artist living in Peoria, IL. After residing in Chicago for most of her life, it wasn’t until she left the city that she found the time and space to really focus on her art. Bethany's paintings act as moving meditations and an anecdote to her monkey brain! She enjoys the improvisational nature of abstract painting. She lets her paintings reveal themselves to her layer by layer. This process has strengthened her ability in and out of the studio to make choices that are guided by intuition rather than outside influences. Each painting reveals a story to her about her inner world at that time….while hopefully also offering freedom of interpretation for the viewer. Bethany is incredibly grateful to be able to create from a place of her own, and loves that abstract work allows the viewer a similar experience of interpreting a piece from a place of their own.