BEAU WILD IS AN AMERICAN ARTIST WHO PAINTS NON-OBJECTIVE AND FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT WORK. A native Floridian, Beau Wild was educated in occupational therapy at Tufts University and in painting at the Museum School / Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. Dual roles as therapist and painter spanned decades and each enhanced the success of the other. Beau returned to the childhood hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1983 after 22 years in New England. Since then, Beau has shown work in nationwide art festivals, competitions and museums across the world and, in 2015, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award during a competition in Cincinnati, OH. Beau Wild has for 30 years explored figurative painting – the bond between the painter and the subject, the subject alone or in groups, even the artist’s own relationship with herself. The studio on Rose Bay with its breathtaking waterscape views would tempt any painter of nature, yet this artist’s attention throughout decades of exploration remains on what is simply called “the figure”. Acutely aware that this artist is, in fact, presenting more than this implies, it is the painter of the interior, the personal, the intimate.