Community Gallery

Bettie is a nurse by profession but an artist by desire!
Having done a course in March 2020 with an artist in Cornwall, whose style she admired Bettie was then forced into isolation along with the rest of the world as the pandemic hit. Circumstances – and fear meant that she did not put paint to canvas for a good 18 months but then one day, encouraged by a dear friend, she did, and she has not looked back.
Working mostly in oils but sometimes using acrylics as an underpainting, Bettie enjoys finding a meditative calm while painting, something that she can find nowhere else.  Her Instagram page declares she’s “starting to paint. Learning to heal”
Finding inspiration in nature – both in the Cotswolds where she lives and at the coast that she loves, Bettie uses the land and seascapes as a starting point for her paintings.  She never intends to replicate a view or scene but would rather evoke memories for people, drawing them into a painting and letting them imagine that it is wherever they want it to be!
After offering one of her paintings for a charity auction Bettie is finding that there is now a list of customers for her work with pieces even hanging on walls in California.
Recent exhibitions have included Cheltenham in 2022 and Penarth in 2023.

Instagram: @artbybettie

Email: [email protected]