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Betty Rupe Betty has lived in the Outback of WA most of her adult life, living in Broome, Leonora, Port Headland and Karratha.  Betty started painting in 1990 in Leonora inspired by Australia’s Outback.  She is driven by the amazing colours, landscape, its people and the incredible history of this amazing land the North of WA. Bringing you the life and amazing feeling she gets from the things she sees and knows.  “It’s not about copying an image, it about trying to get the feeling that I feel across on the canvas as well.”
Inspired by the great masters, and the early Australian artists, Betty has learnt how to bring the things that make her go "OOOH" to you with amazing colour and life.
 Predominately a self-taught Artist, in 2000 Betty studied Art and Completed Certificate lll in Art and Fundamentals in Broome, receiving a dedication award for her time studying.  
 

Exhibitions

  1. 1999 @ Boulevard Shopping Centre Broome
  2. Karratha Expo 1999
  3. Broome Expo 1999
  4. Mental Health Art Exhibition Broome 2000
  5. Consistent entrant in Shinju Matsuri Art Exhibition 1999-2004-2006-2007
  6. Consistent entrant in Kimberley Art Prize 2000-2007
  7. Consistent entrant in Cale Andrews foundation Art Auction Broome
  8. Consistent entrant in Environs Kimberley Art auction Broome
  9. Exhibited work in "Peelers Roe Gallery" Broome
  10. Exhibited work in "Monsoon Gallery" Broome

Artist Statement:

My paintings are about feeling and I strive to make the viewer to experience the exhilaration, connection and harmony I feel through the image that I am portraying.  I believe that my emotion is in the paint as it is applied. With my love for horses and the Australian outback much of my work revolves around these subjects.
I admire the old Australian Artist from the Halderburg School and the way they let the brush and colour express feeling.  As my art has developed I have been drawn towards abstract Art.  My art has developed into a representational style with freedom and feeling expressed through the paint.

Studies, self taught
Betty,
• Observed her mum (Diane Newton, Award Winning Artist) as growing up.
• Studied Art in Year 10 at Wagga Wagga High School NSW in 1996.
• After leaving home in 1989 Betty discovered a strong need to reproduce the beauty she saw in the landscape of the Goldfields around her. So she asked a Artist friend (who had a diploma) to direct her in the basics of oil painting, and so began as a hobby Artist.
• 10 years on at the end of 1997 Betty discovered the beauty of the Kimberly and her need to reproduce it.
  • Betty then pursued a professional career in art with the aid of close Artist friends Marni Huchenson, Tamsin Ainslie and Judy Prosser (who all have diploma’s in Art).
  • In 2000 Betty completed “Certificate III in Art and Fundamentals" at the Broome collage of T.A.F.E. receiving a dedication award for this time.