Beverly Larsen

“Light breathes life into a painting. Darkness feeds light. There can never be light with out dark. The simplicity of this rule is what I strive for in my paintings. My paintings are life around me and the light that brings them to life.”

The Painter

Beverly is a painter who started in oils, switched to acrylics and has now returned to oils. She has developed a style and technique that is very representational yet inspirational. Some of her works can be described as photorealistic. She loves to find inspiration in the simple things around her but also paints from photos of her travels. Her paintings have scaled from small 8 X 10’s to large murals, some of which you can see locally at Colasanti’s in Highland, MI.

Beverly has had a solo show with the HVCA and her paintings have won awards with the Village Fine Art Association, and the Detroit Hart Plaza Polish Festival. She has headed up art programs for Apollo Elementary and taught after school drawing. She is a member of the Huron Valley Council for the Arts and the Village Fine Arts Association.

The Designer

Recently Beverly has ventured into three dimension creation with designing leather handbags. She inhereted her mother’s sewing machine and years before she was offered and accepted leather samples from a furniture store that were going to be discarded. With wanting to recycle the leather and a new sewing machine, she was inspired to create the perfect handbag for herself. This led to a new passion and now she has been designing and selling her handbags on a regular basis.

Beverly is also a freelance graphic designer and a singer/songwriter. She is currently in the band Completely Oblivious, with her husband and two other members.

“I try to keep evolving. I very rarely do the same thing twice. Keeping my work fresh keeps my adrenalin flowing!”