Platero Amongst The Marsh Grasses

by Bea Garth
copyright 1998, 2008

This drawing was done for the 1998 musical performance of “Platero Y Yo“– wherein the Spanish guitar music was inspired by the Pulitzer Prize winning poems by Juan Ramon Jimenez. I imagined an idyllic setting wherein Platero (the wise donkey) was relaxing in a marsh next to his friend, the poet — with the poet now amongst his family (which in the poems he did not have).
—–Bea Garth

Stinker

by Bea Garth
copyright 1998, 2008

“This drawing was inspired by part of the human condition ( i.e., feeling wry and uncomfortable). It will appear this Fall in my upcoming book of poems and drawings: Eating the Peach.”
—–Bea Garth

The Itch

by Bea Garth
copyright 1982, 2008
pen and ink drawingThis drawing will soon appear in Eating The Peach, a book of poems and drawings of mine about love and illusion. This particular drawing was from when I lived in Seattle in 1982 and “gave up art” and started doodling–which started me on the (artistic) path I am still on with ceramic sculpture as well as drawing and now painting.
—–Bea Garth