"I fell in love with watercolors when I picked up my first paint brush in grade school.  after years in the health field, I returned to my first love...art.  Each painting is a journey and I like to travel."

Beth Cavanaugh is a native of South Carolina. She attended the Columbia Museum of Art school many years ago and more recently served as a volunteer at the Museum for special events including the Turner Cezanne' Exhibit.  At the age of 12, she was one of a few South Carolina students who participated in the Tom Sawyer Project for the site of the JFK Center for Performing Arts.

Since 2004 she has been in the WICKWIRE Gallery in Hendersonville, North Carolina.  In 2007, Beth was WICKWIRE's featured artist of the month.  The same year she was the spotlight artist at the Chapin Chamber of Commerce in Chapin, South Carolina.  The Saluda Shoals Foundation in Columbia, SC selected her to participate in their Art in the Park events in 2007 and 2008.  In 2008 and 2009 they chose her paintings for the cover of their holiday cards.

Beth's work has sold at Premieres Gallery, Pawley's Island, South Carolina, The Art Spot Gallery, in Lexington, South Carolina, and the annual Italian Festivals in Columbia, South Carolina.  She exhibits periodically in the local restaurants and has permanent work in several medical offices.  Beth has paintings in private collections in North and South Carolina, Florida, Kansas, California and Arkansas. In 2012, she began exhibiting her work at the Spencer Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.

She enjoys jurying for the Picasso Project in Columbia, South Carolina.  This organization helps grade school children be involved in the arts.

Beth has memberships with the National Watercolor Society, South Carolina Watermedia Society, Art League of Henderson County in North Carolina, Crooked Creek Art League in Chapin South Carolina, and the National Audubon Society.

Finally in 2010, she got her own working art studio, Beths Songbird Studio, a place to make art happen.