Beggars Table is honored to host two bodies of work by Rebecca Stone: Enchanted Quill and Between All Things.

Artist Statement: Enchanted Quill (digital art) 

Enchanted Quill is a digital art series that takes aspects of our reality and opens the door to what lies beyond. The series explores a whimsical world, filled with magical creatures and people. What happens if a rabbit’s head sits on a woman’s body, or a cloud turns into a dragon? Here, mermaids swim beneath the sea, and foxes have kingdoms deep in the forest. Enchanted Quill is drawn digitally by Rebecca Stone using the IPad app Procreate. This series started with the goal of drawing pieces within a unified style and story, but quickly evolved into a multi-year passion project. Now, it embodies not only digital art, but also print-making and wearables. Rebecca works professionally as a graphic designer, and this series helps her to stay creatively motivated in her day to day. She hopes it adds whimsy to your life, as it has her own. 

Artist Statement: Between all Things (mixed media) 

I believe that all people, creatures and things are inherently connected. Through our Creator, we are unified under the cosmos. If we are all connected, then that means the Creator exists within us, within all things, and between all things. We experience a range of emotions and live distinctly different lives, and among this diversity, we universally feel a messy range of emotions. When we come face to face with something larger than life, we have the potential to feel awestruck or even fearful. For example, when staring down the depths of the Grand Canyon, or looking up to the top of Mount Rainier, we can be at a loss for words in its greatness. Similarly, I feel this level of awe and reverence when in the presence of my Creator. This series of paintings is a visualization of my spiritual journey and meditations. 

My artwork is an attempt at inspiring awe to keep our Creator near.

Beggars Table is honored to host two bodies of work by Rebecca Stone: Enchanted Quill and Between All Things.

Enchanted Quill (digital art)
Enchanted Quill is a digital art series that takes aspects of our reality and opens the
door to what lies beyond. The series explores a whimsical world, filled with magical
creatures and people. What happens if a rabbit’s head sits on a woman’s body, or a
cloud turns into a dragon? Here, mermaids swim beneath the sea, and foxes have
kingdoms deep in the forest. Enchanted Quill is drawn digitally by Rebecca Stone using the IPad app Procreate. This series started with the goal of drawing pieces within a unified style and story,
but quickly evolved into a multi-year passion project. Now, it embodies not only
digital art, but also print-making and wearables. Rebecca works professionally as a
graphic designer, and this series helps her to stay creatively motivated in her day to
day. She hopes it adds whimsy to your life, as it has her own.

Artist Statement Between all Things (mixed media)
I believe that all people, creatures and things are inherently connected. Through our
Creator, we are unified under the cosmos. If we are all connected, then that means
the Creator exists within us, within all things, and between all things. We experience
a range of emotions and live distinctly different lives, and among this diversity, we
universally feel a messy range of emotions. When we come face to face with
something larger than life, we have the potential to feel awestruck or even fearful.
For example, when staring down the depths of the Grand Canyon, or looking up to
the top of Mount Rainier, we can be at a loss for words in its greatness. Similarly, I
feel this level of awe and reverence when in the presence of my Creator. This series
of paintings is a visualization of my spiritual journey and meditations. My artwork is an attempt at inspiring awe to keep our Creator near.

Megan Pace is an artist who explores the nature of human interactions, female identity, and the tessellation of abstract forms, through her studio practice. Pace earned her BFA with a concentration in sculpture from Kennesaw State University in 2018. She has done undergraduate research with the Master Craftsman Program at KSU and interned at iD3 Group. Since graduation, she has apprenticed at a print shop in Dallas, TX, and moved to Kansas City, MO, where she is currently building a studio, exploring new bodies of work, and seeking to find and grow an iron community in the Kansas City Area.

“I paint and draw things, but I do not work from life. Although I begin with the object, I paint and draw from measurement and memory. I choose objects with little meaning or narrative attached. They are anonymous utilitarian objects; a fan, a spring, a tire. I choose them for their formal qualities, their shape, color and geometry.

I begin by measuring the object; it’s height, width and depth. Once the dimensions are determined, I place the framework in the center of the page, adjust the drawing, establish the space, and invent the light. Then I begin to draw, and the drawing takes on a life of it’s own.

I draw and erase. Things appear and vanish. The process is one of searching, not knowing. The certainty and doubt is in the history of the surface. And the work takes on a new meaning and the subject becomes the work itself.”

-Andrew Watel

Andrew Watel grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He received an undergraduate degree in Painting from San Francisco State University in 1977 and a Master of Fine Art from Yale University in 1983. Upon graduating from Yale, he moved to New York City where he independently pursued painting and teaching. In 1993, as a founding member, he established and developed The Painting Center, an independent non-profit artist run space. He curated several shows there, including the work of such ‘painter’s painters’ as Albert York and Jake Berthot. Twenty-eight years later, The Center remains viable today and offers artists alternative exhibition space. From 2006 until 2017 he taught as an Adjunct Professor of Painting and Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Here he developed his own curricula for beginning and advanced painting and drawing, led seminars and supervised independent projects.
In 2018 he moved from New York to Kansas City to pursue painting full time.

Tilly Woodward graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Kansas. She is Curator of Academic and Community Outreach at Grinnell College’s Faulconer Gallery, and Founding Director of the Pella Community Art Center (1989 – 2007). Her work has been exhibited in more than 191 museums and galleries nationally and can be found in museum, corporate and private collections in Israel, Ghana, Uganda, India, and throughout the United States. Collections include the Addison Gallery of American Art, Des Moines Art Center, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Meredith Corporation, University of Iowa Museum of Art, West Publishing and Vermeer Manufacturing. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including two Fellowships for Drawing from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has initiated many arts outreach projects designed to help communities address specific social issues, foster creativity, build tolerance and compassion. She is well known for her highly realistic, meticulously detailed oil paintings.