Artist’s Statement:

My work is frankly pictorial—clouds, mountains, vistas. It’s all about the spirit of a place, and I try to open myself to find the expressive mark, the light, and the color that belong to a moment. You might observe that my work lacks irony, but that doesn’t worry me in the slightest. It is just sad that we visual artists so often seem to be thumbing our noses at the public, when art can so heal the spirit.

 

Bio:

Bepe Kafka, née Boatright, was born in Newport News, Virginia, and has painted from childhood. She got her BFA from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, studying under the landscape painter Neil Welliver. Upon receiving her degree, she lived in New York City, but found city life rather wearing, so moved New Jersey. In 1998, on a snowmobiling vacation in Wyoming, she turned to her husband and said, “Can you tell me why we are living in New Jersey?” The rest, as they say, is history, and Bepe has found her joy painting the natural beauty of Utah.