Local artist showcases work inspired by white sheets

On Friday, Beth Flor kicked off her art show, Beyond Realism, with a reception at Firelight Gallery & Framing to display her pieces painted over a two-year period.

"[Painting] makes me focus and takes me out of myself," said Flor. "It's not that I relax, it's that I focus. You escape into the work."

The subject matter for half of the pieces are white sheets. Most of them were painted in Mexico. At first, she was inspired by the shapes and forms her white sheets took while she was changing them, she said. They looked liked waves. Then she began creating the compositions. She wrapped a sheet aro...