1. Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, known as Betty Shaw-Lawrence, was an English figurative artist.
10 Facts About Bettina Shaw-Lawrence
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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence's work is figurative and expresses itself mainly through oil paintings.
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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence is a book illustrator, "widely known as a portrait painter", and a sculptor.
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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence's works are represented in private collections but recently her pen and ink drawing of the poet David Gascoyne has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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On her return to London in September, 1939, Shaw-Lawrence met David Kentish and Lucian Freud both students at Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing.
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In 1958 Bettina Shaw-Lawrence left England to move to Italy where her oils on canvas became more luminous and serene though her work " might be sets for very sophisticated doll dramas".
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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence's paintings were steeped in "a world of crystalline beauty, alive and real", a world devoid of intruders "because of this power of hers to purify reality and restore it to innocence".
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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence died in Italy in September 2018 at the age of 97.
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The Bodley catalogue dated 1963, confirms that when Bettina Shaw-Lawrence lived in Rome, Italy her works were exhibited " at the Obelisco and Gallery 88".
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In 1985, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence took part in the exhibition entitled 'The Benton End Circle' which was held at Bury St Edmunds Art gallery in Bury St Edmunds.