Beth Himsworth is a local Columbus artist who has created unique glass wall-mounted panels and windows for residential, hospital and university environments.
Her glass offers the same stunning colors and textures as traditional stained glass but adds the intriguing dimension of far greater detail often with thousands of hand-cut pieces of glass in a single panel or molded into flowing dimensionality. Her contemporary, stylized nature themes provide a sense of serenity and beauty in a workspace.
Beth has developed elements that pull the viewer into a deeper and multilayered vision of a forest, wave or other scene. Her award-winning Autumn Birch Forest has been installed in the surgical wing of a new Medical Center in Ohio. She has been represented in Galleries in Columbus, New Albany and Cincinnati in Ohio also in San Francisco and Mt Desert Is., Maine.
Her range includes wall panels for indoor and outdoor installation or windows as well as fused glass sculpture. Her style melds the ancient art of mosaic with the contemporary, fresh use of vibrant and textured modern fused glass. She spent nearly 18 years in South America and around the world and brings the vitality of the rain-forest and the strength of exploring many cultures to her work.
Most recently, Beth spent most of 2020 and ongoing in 2021 completing a commission for Children's Hospital Medical Center - to place fused glass triptychs in 54 patient rooms.
Beth is the recipient of the Dominick Labino Award for Excellence in Glass from Ohio Designer Craftsmen. She was selected for Percent for Art for Gillham Hall, University of Toledo and instillation for the Columbus Bicentennial celebration “Cap-Up” project in the Capital Square Sheraton. Her mosaic “Garden Koi” was selected for the Short North Mural project and installed in Columbus’ Art District on N. High Street. (18 x 8 feet)
Serving on the Management Team of the Studios on High Gallery – voted best Gallery of 2019 by Columbus Monthly readers - five years in a row.