Woman Singing From A Window, oil 35x50 custom handmade frame.

Painted en plein air Door County  (now sold) 

Golden Escarpment, oil 28x24”, custom frame made by me & Pat, 34x31”  I painted this en plein air in Door County at Headlands Park.  It is a place I enjoy returning to to capture the escarpment of limestone.  An awesome structure! Available Edgewood Orchard Gallery (link)

I will be in Door County Wisconsin to paint for my 4th season at the Door County Plein Air Festival. If you are arriving at my site because I met you there, WELCOME.  I hope you are having a lovely time.  The event is hosted by Peninsula School of Art and runs July 19-25.(link to event) As part of the event, I will be painting on Monday the 20 at Edgewood Orchard Gallery and if you are in the area I hope you will stop by to say hello.  Here is my painting for the small works exhibition that kicks off the event.   Also be sure to sign up for my newsletter if you wish to be in a drawing for my fresh off the press note card set!  The set includes the image below!

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I was so very honored again this year to have work in the New Salem Museum Exhibition,  Congratulations to T. Allen Lawson for receiving the $35,000.  acquisition award, Rose Franzen for the directors choice award and Fabrice Grimard for the small work award.  It is an honor to be part of this exhibition.  You can see all the work in the show and read what I wrote for the museum placard online (link) or better yet the show runs until August 16th.     My entry this year features a rainbow trout that I caught with the help of my husband Pat!  

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Invitation, 60x60 oil painted en plein air , available through my studio. I welcome inquiries.  So grateful to have it published on the cover of Plein Air Magazine with a lovely article written by the editor, Kelly Kane.

I am looking forward to teaching a plein air workshop at Peninsula School of Art in September.  I hope you will consider joining me.  Each day we will meet in the studio for a morning concept and then depart to some of my favorite painting locations.

Here is a link for more information  

 I also have a few new works in the Wisconsin in Summer exhibition opening July 17 at Tory Folliard Gallery including the painting below which I painted en plein air in Madison Wisconsin at the Union terrace on the Hoofer's Sail Club pier!   A breezy day indeed.

iRain Oh Beautiful, study Ephraim Harbor en plein air 19x15.50 Framed 22.5x26.5

Breezy, Hoofers Sailing Club en plein air

 Painter Ryan Brown has invited me to be one of the demonstration artists at the Zion Painting Retreat in October.  It is an honor to be invited.  If you are interested in attending this unique painting retreat here is the  Now full.

Other good news.  I have been invited to be part of the Willow Invitational in Vermont and an exhibition hosted by Ballard Fine Art in  Wyoming.  I will send out updates as these exhibitions draw close.

Last year at the New Salem Museum Exhibition :   I was so chuffed my painting In This Light  was awarded the Directors Choice Award by painter and director of the New Salem Museum, Michael Klein.  I was honored to be in the Finalist Exhibition and it felt amazing to have my painting recognized with the Directors Choice honor.  Thank you to Rosemary Brushes for the significant donation of the award.  Please sign up for my newsletter to hear all about it. The NSAM museum is a gem.  And I encourage you to check it out!   link to New Salem Museum & Fine Art Atelier (me pictured above with Michael Klein).  In This Light  is available, message me with interest.

Like Clouds Like Flowers, oil / linen,  30x24" (sold) This painting is featured in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine  Sept/ Oct

PODCAST NEWS! I was honored to be a guest, I hope you will enjoy listening.  

Host Jeff Hein/UNDRAPED ARTIST PODCAST 

Host Suzanne Lago-Arthur/CREATIVE CONTEMPLATION PODCAST

Host Kevin Muente/CONVERSATIONS WITH KEVIN

 I am honored to be recognized by Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine March/April issue as one of 5 to watch!

THANK YOU to Chris Gargan for the article on my work for Madison Essentials.  In the article Chris wrote,  "Hers is a contemplative engagement, sometimes taking weeks to complete even in the bitter cold and stinging winds of Wisconsin winter. Her painting of a bee box in the snow, done in her backyard with her brushes taped to her gloves because her fingers become too numb to grip, or the remains of clumps of brussels sprouts lying in the frozen ground stubbornly clinging to their fading greenery are the product of hours and days of careful, reimagined, and reexamined attention to all aspects of the visual sensation. The process by which the image emerges does not conform to any single strategy for its making. The dense tapestry of marks, blended, scraped, flickered, dragged, stippled, and thickly impastoed upon the surface, cannot be simply unwoven. The Gordian knot of marks and brushwork adds to the visual and poetic mystery and intention of her painting."

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All the best to you, keep it a little bit wild, Bethann