August 5, 2010
"Florette"
Bethany Vanderputten's 2011 Calendar Coming this Fall!
SAN FRANCISCO -- New paintings by Canadian artist and illustrator Bethany Vanderputten will be released in her 2011 Calendar "Florette". Featuring sixteen full color floral paintings reproduced at their original size this calendar will be 7"x10" and wire-bound. Every month
will feature a new 6"x6" painting accompanied by a short scripture Bethany has chosen to complement each painting. "Florette" will be available this Fall on ETSY at http://www.etsy.com/shop/bethanyvanderputten.
Bethany Vanderputten is originally from Canada and recently received her Masters in Fine Arts degree in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Before coming to San Francisco, Bethany received her Bachelors in Design degree in Visual Communications from Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada, and worked for several years as a graphic designer. She also supports the Graphic Artists Guild as the Northern California Chapter Administrator. "Florette" is the first calendar Bethany has illustrated. She has also designed it herself.
The great impressionist painter Claude Monet once said "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers" and Bethany feels much the same way. She began painting these small florals as warm-ups for her larger works but soon recognized that they had a beauty unto themselves.
Bethany sums up her illustrative style with this poetic tagline: "Expressive art to capture the heart".
I really want to engage people in a way that captures them. Because I am trying to tell a story through my art, sometimes you have to look at it for awhile to get it. That's what I am exploring through different techniques, through my tactile painting or texture or color: capturing someone's heart through what they see, by expressing my own heart.
- Bethany Vanderputten
Bethany Vanderputten's art may also be seen online, at www.bethanyillustrates.com. Bethany is available for commissions and illustration projects.
June 21, 2010
"Faithful"
Bethany Vanderputten's paintings to exhibit at Gallery 688
SAN FRANCISCO -- Paintings by Canadian artist and illustrator Bethany Vanderputten will be shown at Gallery 688, located at 688 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94108 from Thursday, July 1 through Thursday, July 29th. The opening reception will be held Thursday, July 1st, 5: 30 - 7:30 PM. Gallery 688 is open daily from 10 AM until 6 PM, Saturdays until 5 PM. (Please call to confirm, since holiday hours may be in effect.)
Bethany Vanderputten is originally from Calgary and recently received her Masters in Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Before coming to San Francisco, Bethany received her Bachelors in Design degree in Visual Communications from Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada, and worked for several years as a graphic designer. "Faithful" marks the launch of Bethany's career as an illustrator. The show features Bethany's thesis work from her MFA program, including examples of illustrations for book publishing, music packaging and greeting cards.
They say a picture says a thousand words. Bethany Vanderputten's naturalistic acrylic paintings go deeper than words. They are explorations of the inner and outer world. Bethany's paintings glow softly with luminous colors, expressive brushwork and textures that hint at layers of multiple meanings. Ideas and emotions seem to drift fluidly just beneath the surface. Experiencing these paintings, we travel back and forth across the border of what is real and what is imagined, dreamed, or felt emotionally. Bethany's art is inspired by her love of travel and adventure, music (she sings and plays piano), heroic stories and quotations from literature and poetry.
Bethany sums up her illustrative style with this poetic tagline: "Expressive art to capture the heart".
I really want to engage people in a way that captures them. Because I am trying to tell a story through my art, sometimes you have to look at it for awhile to get it. That's what I am exploring through different techniques, through my tactile painting or texture or color: capturing someone's heart through what they see, by expressing my own heart.
- Bethany Vanderputten
Bethany Vanderputten's art may also be seen online, at www.bethanyillustrates.com. Bethany is available for commissions and illustration projects.
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