The West Tisbury Library hosts monthly art exhibits in the beautiful Community Program Room. Art exhibits are arranged by the West Tisbury Library Art Committee. If you are interested in scheduling an exhibit, please contact the Art Committee Chair at artwtfpl@gmail.com.

September 2025

Beth Parker & Daisy Kimberly

On Friday, September 5, from 3:30-4:30pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for an art exhibit and reception featuring the work of Beth Parker and Daisy Kimberly. This show presents Parker’s paintings in acrylic and archival ink and watercolor, and Kimberly’s fiber art and paintings on stone. This collaborative show will be on display in the library’s Community Room throughout the month of September. Free and open to the public.

Artist Statements:

Beth Parker, bethparkermv@hotmail.com

“I studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. in the 1970s, a rigorous program that has stood me in good stead over the decades. For my day-job I work as a gardener— painting a little every day during the growing season and a lot during the winter. The same basic forms have been showing up in my paintings and drawings since I was in my teens. Structures, creatures or plants, as well as more abstract tangles, shards and zigzags. They’re all landscapes. Of somewhere. Lots of things flit through my mind as I paint— tidal pools, The Big Bang, junk DNA, virus fragments, microscopic views of household dust. Space trash. Creatures on the move, tangled thickets. Gardens becoming machinery or vice versa.

The paintings are acrylic paint & sealed pastel on canvas. The smaller work on paper is archival ink and watercolor, protected with matte acrylic varnish. My work is in various private collections, and at the MV Hospital.”

Daisy Kimberly, kimberlybobanddaisy199@gmail.com

“When I was very young I started to draw all the time. After I had used up all the available paper in the house, I drew on the fly leaves of my books.

As I grew up I continued to draw and paint but began to believe that art felt the same to me whether it was fine art painting or beautifully-done crafts.

Fiber art got me excited after I closed my store and started making hand-sewn pillows decorated with embroidery and crocheted details.

‘What if…’ became my challenge, and what resulted turned into architecture combined with those elements in as lifelike and intricate renditions as I could fabricate.

The same held true for painting lifelike creatures on stone. The fun and challenge of figuring it all out keeps me going and will continue as long as my hands hold out!”