Annette van Betlehem
Top of Crotty Street Queenstown
Below is a slideshow of paintings included in the Osmosis 2010 Exhibition by Annette van Betlehem.
Below is a slideshow of paintings included in the Osmosis 2010 Exhibition by Annette van Betlehem.
Annette has exhibited in many group shows and 6 Solo Exhibitions since 2007. Using Oil on Canvas she explores the lush textures and patterns of the undergrowth, rocks and trees, the variances of light and atmospheric conditions deep in the forest and the resulting high contrast polarising of colour.
Since graduating with a BFA from University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts in 1997, Annette has been interpreting the landscape of Tasmania's rugged and isolated west coast, establishing Hunter Street Studios in Queenstown 1998 – 2003, a Gallery, Art Education centre and studios, which held 8 exhibitions of local and interstate artists work, 180 people graduated from short courses in Painting, Photography and Ceramics, and Hunter Street Studios was host to visiting artists and tutors and became a beacon of culture for an isolated community.
van Betlehem is working towards the 7th Solo exhibition in Melbourne in December 2010, showing work based on this year’s painting residency at the Cite International des Arts in Paris.
Paintings from the Lyell Highway
Heading west on the open road, city behind, tasks completed. A rollercoaster of changing landscapes : through the green farming fields then ascending, passing power stations and fishing lakes, through the regrowth forests around Derwent Bridge, opening on to the drama of the Navarre Plains that once hosted corroborees. The exhilarating sheer cliffs of Mt Arrowsmith where the road twists down into the valley of the mighty rivers.- was the road into Queenstown once densely forested like this ? The wonder of the quartzite monolith Frenchman's Cap. Twisting turning road. Through the deep greens of the Nelson Valley, then the almost lurid mauve of the Thureau hills and Gould's Vale of Chamouni. Yep, mining country, extreme remnants of the efforts of hardy pioneers seeking their fortune in hostile conditions a century ago.. Rust sodden orange rocks, Roaring Meg, 99 bends descending into the township of Queenstown, the wild west.Home.
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