Bettie Huibers
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Artist: Bettie Huibers
Born in the Netherlands . Bettie moved to New Zealand in 1983 , and presently resides in Waipukurau, Central Hawke's Bay. With a diploma in Art and Craft for Youth Leadership and Art Therapy . She has worked as an Art Therapist and has taught art privately, at schools, and at teachers training institutions.
Working across a wide range of media including acrylics, oils and water colours.
Bettie has shown and sold work extensively both privately, and through exhibitions and galleries in Hawke's Bay and Wellington region .
Bettie works in two different ways.
One is the exploration of colours and their associated moods, letting them manifest gradually into forms from which a theme is discovered.
From this process colour is approached as a vehicle or motive towards the completed work. This allows the focus on colour , so that whatever actually happens on the canvas ,in the way of structure, form and composition takes on a subconscious role.
The second method is to start with a theme or subject and consciously choose a suitable colour palette which gradually brings out the subject through the paint on the canvas. This gives a more traditional approach but still allows the space to explore the qualitative aspects of colour(s) .
To achieve the required results multiple layers are applied of translucent colours by brush on canvas built up over time to create shifting colour field of layering depths.