Lorraine Thorarinson Betts

Lorraine Thorarinson Betts explores painting and printmaking at her Saladpatch Studio in Metchosin, British Columbia, on the west shore of Victoria. She approaches her art with an open palette of technique, employing the classical methods of intaglio-etching, drypoint, aquatint as well as monotype, collagraph and mixed media. Lorraine's artwork is in private collections in Canada, Japan, England, and the USA.

self portrait Education:

BFA University of Victoria

BA University of Manitoba

Exhibitions:

2011 The Guiding Thread So Fine, Cedar Hill Center, Victoria, BC

The 500 Show, Red Art Gallery, Victoria, BC

Christmas Small Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Summer Small Works, Massey Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery

Stinking Fish Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Heliolatry, Red Art Gallery, Victoria, BC

The Elegance of Black, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

2010 Christmas Small Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

Small Treasures III, Coast Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Selections, Eclectic Gallery, Victoria, BC, Solo show

Stinking Fish Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Summer Small Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

Mapping-Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

A Passion for Print, CACGV, Victoria, BC, Three person

2009 Christmas Small Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Prints for Peace 09, Juried Exhibition, Monterrey NL Mexico

Art Incognito, VISA, Victoria, BC

Stinking Fish Summer Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Metchosin Community House, Metchosin, BC

Summer Small Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

Memory, History and Family, Coast Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC

Allsorts - Watermark Printmakers, Coast Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC

Labyrinth - Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

2008 Small Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Rental, Victoria, BC

Small Treasures, Coast Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC

Small Works, p.s. gallery, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Stinking Fish Studio Tour, Summer and Fall, Victoria, BC

Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC

Lorraine Thorarinson Betts, p.s. gallery, Victoria, BC, Solo show

Translations - Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

LOOK Victoria 2008, Community Arts Council, Victoria, BC

2007 Stinking Fish Fall Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC *Juror’s Choice Award

Art Incognito, VISA, Victoria, BC

Motivation, Power & Achievement Society, Vancouver, BC

Interleaving - Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC

Stinking Fish Summer Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Icelandic Festival Fine Art Show, Gimli, MB *Best in Show Award

Homage, Mermaid’s Kiss Gallery, Gimli, MB

LOOK Victoria 2007, Community Arts Council, Victoria, BC

2006 Stinking Fish Fall Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Stinking Fish Summer Studio Tour, Victoria, bc

Infinite Horizons, Mermaid’s Kiss Gallery, Gimli, MB

Daisy Irwin Art Show, Sooke, BC

Water - Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

LOOK Victoria 2006, Community Arts Council, Victoria, BC

2005 Exhibition of Small Works, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC

Stinking Fish Fall Studio Tour, Victoria, BC

Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC

Muddy Boots - Watermark Printmakers, Victoria, BC

Aqua Vitae, Mermaid’s Kiss Gallery, Gimli, MB

Fugue, Gallery Lacosse, Winnipeg, MB

Song Cycle - Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

2004 Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC

Icelandic Festival Fine Art Show, Gimli, MB

2003 Sidney Fine Art Show, Sidney, BC

Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC

Icelandic Festival Fine Art Show, Gimli, MB *Honourable Mention

Vessels - Watermark Printmakers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC

2002 Sooke Fine Arts Show, Sooke, BC

Icelandic Festival Fine Art Show, Gimli, MB

Prairie Ocean Art Show, Gimli, MB

Face Value, Graduation Show, University of Victoria, BC

Visual Impetus V, History in Art Symposium, University of Victoria, BC

2001, 2000, 1999 Icelandic Festival Fine Art Show, Gimli, MB *Purchase Award

Painting is the expression of ideas in their permanent form. It is the giving of evidence. It is the story of our lives, our environment. ~Robert Henri