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Betsy's art training began at Scripps College, one of the Claremont Colleges in California, and continued at the University of Pennsylvania and the PA Academy of Fine Arts where she received an MFA for work primarily in sculpture. Later, in 1987, she received a diploma in Art Therapy from Tobias School of Art in England. Betsy worked for 4 years with adults at a National Health Practice in London. She also joined the faculty of the Kings Langley Waldorf School in Hertfordshire and worked for 12 years mainly with children who had health or developmental difficulties. She also taught painting, drawing and stone carving, and continued her own creative work in her spare time. In the Fall of 2000, Betsy retired from her work at the Waldorf school, and together with her husband, Brian, returned to Tucson, Arizona to be near her parents in the Tucson Mountain Foothills. Together they remodeled their home and built a two-room studio to continue their artistic work. Betsy's inspiration comes from a spiritual view of life, people, and evolution. She has carved a series of "flame" forms in stone, and has began a series of dancers. She continues with art therapy, and conducts workshops in alabaster carving and watercolor painting. She welcomes sculpture commissions in stone, ceramic or bronze.
To contact Betsy Email: betsevans@earthlink.net |
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Brian began his art career as a technical illustrator in England; he took further training in commercial art prior to emigrating to Canada. Brian spent much of his leisure time exploring the Canadian landscape and recording his travels with pencil sketches, watercolors and photographs. Further contacts gave Brian the opportunity to work in theatre design and local television production where he hosted a watercolor instruction series. He also taught drawing and painting at community colleges. Brian has held many successful one-man shows, exhibiting at private galleries and juried exhibitions. He has also exhibited and given workshops in England and Italy. Brian returned to England in 1996 and was employed as an activities organizer at a residential home for people with dementia. He introduced Fine Arts in their daily activities program, something quite new at that time. Brian was so encouraged by the results that he used the successful projects as the basis for his book, Activities for Older People. It was published in November 2000 by Butterworth Heinmann. Brian lives with his wife Betsy in Tucson, Arizona at Betsy's family home. They have established a business, La Casita Studios and share a purpose built studio where Betsy creates her carving and Brian his paintings. During the hot summer months Betsy and Brian move to the family's lakeside cabin in Maine. The cabin was built by Betsy's father in 1929 and gives Brian a wonderful opportunity to study and paint the eastern states of America and the provinces of Canada. To contact Brian Email: brianwbanks@earthlink.net |
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