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© Betty Butler, Clockwise: Australian Fires,Shelter in Place, Colorful Seahorses, Kangaroo Escape, I Can’t Breathe
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I was very pleased to be accepted into the online exhibition, Colour, July 15 - August 14, 2021, Tebbs Contemporary Art Gallery, London UK. My chosen works are pictured above.
I also had the opportunity to be interviewed for the exhibition on ZOOM. After a short talk about my work, guest viewers had some provocative questions for me. For example, one participant asked if I consciously chose to retain my painterly style when I shifted from canvas to digital art. I answered that painting had certainly informed the digital work to come.
Someone asked about my artistic path, and I described my journey from fine arts to graphic design and back again, noting that I had learned different things from both disciplines.
© Betty Butler, Color in Profile, Digital Collage, 2021 |
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was excited to announce a special recognition award of the image Color in Profile
(above) in the Exhibition of Primary Colors at Light Space and Time
Online Gallery. The show ran through December of 2021. The juror was seeking original work that
included any combination of the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue)
from which all other colors are mixed.
Many great minds have theorized how colors form, mix and evoke human emotions. Surprisingly, not all theories came from artists, but also from scientists such as Sir Isaacs Newton (law of gravity) and literary figures like the acclaimed German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Newton experimented with shining white light through a prism against a wall. He discovered it break into a rainbow of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. On the other hand, Goethe’s treatise, Theory of Colours, focused on many personal color observations. Finally, this book and others were read with great enthusiasm by contemporary painters, particularly Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh, who put the theories into practice in their paintings.
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© Betty Butler, Playful Blossoms, Digital Collage, 2021 |
Finally, I was honored to have been selected for Envision Arts online gallery, based in Dallas, Texas, titled Summer II. One of my colorful works are featured above. The gallery was searching for work that embodied the essence of summer, be it subject matter, color, or feeling. It’s a contemporary show, with artists from various US states and Moscow, Russia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Barcelona, Spain. Although the exhibition went online in June 2021, you can view the show here in the gallery’s archive.
