About

Bethany Moore is a visual artist and tutor who is passionate about drawing nature and loves to teach. Fascinated by the quiet contemplation of still-life studies, she enjoys the process of observing, drawing and painting her various subjects. She loves to share these mindful drawing techniques with others and travels to art groups and corporate venues around the country to discuss and teach traditional observational drawing methods.

Bethany enjoys working in oil paints, pastels and pencils on paper and canvas from her purpose-built studio on the Isle Of Wight. In 2017 she founded the Cowes Library Drawing Group , to encourage observational drawing skills and techniques. She is a member of the IW Creative Network.

Whilst other artists paint ‘beautiful’ people or ‘beautiful’ landscapes, I enjoy finding the beauty in interesting and unusual items through pattern, colour, shape and form. From old keys to dappled light; from portraiture to print-making, I love to slow down the observation process and select different materials to capture the essence of my subject.

Bethany Moore

Exhibitions

Ruby Reading. Oil paint on collaged papers. I used my niece’s wonderfully creative drawings as a basis for my portrait of her reading.

Little Forest Land Art – Art In The Garden 2023. North Boarhunt, Hampshire. May 27th – June 10th 2023

Seagrass Symposium. 18th April 2023. Collaborative Art Project with Sara Truckel. Using lino-printing and delegate participation to visualise the planting of seagrass and carbon sequestration along with re-building habitat for marine species. Working with Project Seagrass.

Monkton Arts. Ryde. ‘Artist of the Month’ Saturday 1st April – Friday 28th April 2023

Quay Arts biennial OPEN Exhibition 2021 ‘Freedom’ Sat 26th June – Sun 29th August 2021

Quay Arts biennial OPEN Exhibition 2019 themed and titled: ‘A Life in Nature’ – Sat 30 Nov 2019 – Sat 1 Feb 2020

IWAC Autumn Exhibition – Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle Of Wight. Oct 2019

Stride Open Exhibition – Oxmarket Gallery Chichester. Oct 2016

Instagram

I’ve had a couple of false starts with paintings lately, so I painted over both of those canvases with a dark French ultramarine/raw umber mix to give myself a brooding base, and started again. I’m really looking forward to being part of Cowes Open Studios this year. This weekend I challenged myself to capture the wet shine of this seaweed tangle. My husband and I ‘walked the Wight’ yesterday. 🥳 I find myself in Surrey this weekend so googled ‘art galleries near me’ and have now discovered the wonderful @thelightboxwoking Detail from a new painting, where roots have woven themselves into lace to celebrate the mycorrhizal network weaving its way through the soil. This one has taken a while to wrangle from the original charcoal under-drawing. Amazing evening attending the Seagrass Symposium at Cowes Yacht Haven yesterday with @sara_truckel_artist Next week is the @projectseagrass symposium in Cowes.