Cement, original Betker oil on canvas, Seattle’s Harbor Island, industrial-recreational marina

Cement, © BVF Betker, oil on canvas, 36” x 36”

Seattle’s Harbor Island, mixed-use industrial and recreational marina
Currently exhibited and available at Jamieson Furniture Gallery, Bellevue, Washington
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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!