Beverly J. Garcia was born in the small village of Octavia, Nebraska, a place and region that has long inspired her agrarian art.  After graduation from Schuyler High School she taught in a country school, spent a year of volunteer service in Brigham City, Utah, realized summers in a Pendleton, Oregon pea cannery, and worked at a Lincoln, NE department store before becoming a nurse. Her travels led to Chicago, where she married Dr. Heriberto Garcia, an immigrant from Cuba, together raising four sons. 

At the age of 50, her painting began in earnest as she attended workshops of many prominent artists, again traveling around the country. She moved to and created an art studio in Grand Detour, IL where she was actively involved in the arts community, sponsoring several benefits for charity with the sale of her work. One of her notable series was from a year painting 30 portraits of people from Grand Detour. She has been profiled in several publications and her work has won several awards. She was accepted into the premier show of the Oil Painters of America in Chicago, had one woman shows at the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in Nebraska, at the Coliseum in Oregon IL, at The Next Picture Show in Dixon, IL, and the Woodlawn Art Academy in Sterling, IL. Two books of her artwork have been authored:  ‘Beverly Evans Garcia’, and ‘Grand Detour Portraits’.

Her landscape paintings are in oils and draw from her experiences travelling across the country and most recently from local farms, parks, streams and prairies. Florals are from her garden in Grand Detour.  Still life paintings incorporate arrangements of antiques and collectibles from across the country. Her portraits were done from both sitting models and photographs, as part of her commissioned portraits. 

Her philosophy is that success in art is based more on instruction and miles of canvas rather than innate talent. 

As in art and life, for her they are both, “An ongoing journey”.