Elizabeth de Bethune

I am an artist-educator who loves teaching, and feels strongly that everyone should be making art, and that we should be fostering visual intelligence and the non-hierarchical flexibility of creative thinking in everyone.

I am a painter who uses drawing, collage, and printmaking as part of my process. My work is primarily narrative and often figurative; using visual imagery to tell a story about our corner of the universe as I see it. I work with mark-making and color to create a sense of intimacy and presence in my images.

My most recent one-person exhibit was “Every Picture Tells a Story” at the Wenburg Gallery, Fonseca Center, Masters School, Dobbs Ferry NY in March of 2020. I currently has 3 paintings in “THEN NOW WHEN, The Winter Show” at Gallery18 at the Riverdale Y in the Bronx,  February 2 to March 26, 2023, one painting in the upcoming exhibit “Is It Me? “, March 10 to April 14, 2023, at The Art Effect's Trolley Barn Gallery, in Poughkeepsie NY.

To see more of my work, please go to elizabethdebethuneart.com

I have a BA in Fine Art from Yale University and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY Purchase. I have also studied at the New York Studio School, Manhattan Graphics Center, and with painter Brenda Goodman. Additionally, I was a pioneering artist at the Bronx River Art Center Studio program and did two monotype printing residencies at Women’s Studio Workshop and one at Vermont Studio Center. I was affiliated with the YoHo Studios in Yonkers, but now work out of my home studio barn. I am especially delighted to have been a “critter” at the Crit Lab since January 2022.