secret gardens

This Saturday we celebrate the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park!  I will be privileged to paint in the garden of Betsy and George Piano.

Meanwhile, throughout June please visit the Sunlight Cafe and consider giving a home to one of my primitavist knifepaintings of Northwest human habitat -- pruning helps us thrive, in art as in gardening!
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sharing the wealth

Swinomish, ©2012 BVF Betker, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches

Hope all local friends will come down to take a look at my June show, Stolen Beauty, at the Sunlight Cafe, 6403 Roosevelt N.E. in Seattle!  My friend Brian Forrest's gorgeous paintings are up until then.  If you have missed them he and I will present a duo show there in September!

Please join me for happy hour Thursday, June 14, 4 - 6 pm and enjoy some of the Sunlight's scrumptious treats!

And don't forget the Quarterly First Friday Open Studio, June 1, 2012, 8 - 10pm at Gasworks Studios, 3515 4th Avenue N.E. (Across the street from Ivar’s Salmon House).
Explore three floors of studios including my new space in the underground's east end!

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splash in the pan

Beauty Alley II, ©2012 BVF Betker, oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

It has been pointed out to me I haven't posted in awhile. That's because I've been putting everything new on the website instead of writing about it. I need a staff!

Last November the sun came from behind the clouds and I started painting in earnest and building what might actually be considered a body of work -- rather than the Frankenstein's monster I'd been gathering all these years. Its focus is human territory: the occupied landscape.

Rather than begin at the beginning, here is one of the latest pieces. I paint with a knife, thus avoiding the need for solvents, and adding that element of sculpture with impasto that I love so much!