Bethi Carver

Bethi Carver began painting birds and bird watching after moving to the Delta. With hundreds of native birds, mammals, reptiles and insects there are endless combinations. To share the joy of bird watching with family and friends, she began writing and illustrating "Near the Fast Water " stories and is in progress with the Delta Birds Coloring Book. Research into bird anatomy for illustrations and identification led to a more serious study of Ornithology and a Wildlife Rehabilitation course at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum and participation in several birding clubs and associations. As a big part of Ornithology is to document how the birds look, their behavior and habitat, the illustrated stories and coloring book is a mix of science and art.

With training in both classical and modern art theory and practice, Bethi Carver currently uses a variety of media and techniques; Watercolor and Mono-Prints, Acrylic on Canvas and Mixed Media Collage'. Some of her first woodcuts and silkscreen prints are of wildlife; Lion, Goshawk, Cougar, Panda, etc.

Contemporary Impressionism is a good description of the Mono-prints. Color combinations of the Delta are both endless and specific with lots of reflected light. Plein-Air sketches are brought in-studio and combined into distinctive visual images. What she likes about the mono-prints is that no two are the same. The media of paper, water and pigment flows together.

A goal with the Mono-prints is to create images that are both relaxing and interesting to look at. With comfortable viewing up close and at a distance. Many mono-prints are of Great Blue Herons. Graceful & serene, the great wading birds are always a versatile subject. There are also Mono-prints of Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Barn Swallows & Pied-billed Grebes & Long Billed Curlews.


coming soon


Mixed Media with Ceramics, Acrylics, Watercolors, Ink wash, Mono-prints, Silkscreen and Woodcuts.

Reproductions are available for some of the artwork.


  • November 2009 Centra Valley Birding Symposium www.CVBS.org
  • May 2009 East Contra County Artist Open Studios Tour.
  • February -March 2009 Discover Art League Judged Show, Discovery Bay Chamber of Commerce.
  • December 2005 Lynn House Gallery, 809 First Street, Antioch.
  • November 2005 to January 2006 Brentwood Arts Commission, Laurence Ferlinghetti & Group Exhibition.
  • 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Central Valley Birding Symposium, Stockton.
  • 2004 Brentwood Art Walk.
  • 2001 "Hands Along the Tide Line" community art. Berkeley Bay Festival & Watsonville Oceans Festival.
  • 1999 thru 2001 Discover Art League at Summerset III, Brentwood.
  • 1999 & 2000 Lynn House Gallery in Antioch, juried show, 2000 "Blue Mandala #1, honorable mention.
  • 2000 thru present "For the Seventh Generation Mile of Paintings of the West Coastline" Atelier Gallery "Blue Rock" $700 Rodeo Beach, 2' x 4' acrylic on canvas. 30% of the sale is donated to Nature Conservancy for conservation efforts.
  • January 1999 Delta Art Association at the Flyway Festival, Vallejo.


Coming Soon


Bethi Carver

Contact phone: 925-684-9612
Contact email: info@nearthefastwater.com
Web site: www.nearthefastwater.com