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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence also known as Betty Shaw-Lawrence, is an English 20th century figurative artist born in 1921. Though she studied painting and drawing under Fernand Léger, Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, was mainly self-taught. The artist worked professionally until the early 1980s. ==Biography== Born on 29 July 1921 in London, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence is a post-World War II artist. Her work is figurative and expresses itself mainly through oil paintings. Her other favourite mediums are black and white or coloured ink drawings. She is also a book illustrator, "widely known as a portrait painter",〔Bodley Gallery New York catalogue. (1963).''Bettina Shaw Lawrence: Bodley Gallery'',New York: Bodley Gallery, OCLC83884329〕 and a sculptor. Her 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. From 1946 onwards, the artist had several solo and group exhibitions in galleries of contemporary Art in London, Rome and New York. The artist attended, before the outbreak of the Second World War, drawing classes under Fernand Léger and studied sculpture with Ossip Zadkine in Paris. During those formative years David Gascoyne, the Surrealist poet, was her mentor.〔David Gascoyne (1980)Journal 1936-37.London: Enitharmon Press, ISBN 0-905289-66-8 p.51〕〔David Gascoyne (1978) Paris Journal 1937-39, London: Enitharmon Press, ISBN 0-905289-35-8 p. 110〕〔Robert Fraser (writer) (2012),Night Thoughts ''The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne'',Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-955814-8, pp.104,120,143,169,171,187,189,199-200, 210,〕 On her return to London in September, 1939, Shaw-Lawrence met David Kentish and Lucian Freud〔In her correspondence to Arthur Lett-Haines dated June 2, 1941 (available at Hyman Dreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain Millbank, London) Bettina refers to Lucian Freud who "had just arrived back from Halifax looking tremendous, fat & very tough;" and to David Kentish who "has been away for 2 months in Wales having an operation"〕 both students at Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing. This encounter enabled her to spend the summer of 1940 studying under the artist Cedric Morris and though she returned to the School at Benton End near Hadleigh, Suffolk, for short spells during the war, Shaw-Lawrence mainly painted in Richmond-upon-Thames .〔Events attested by her correspondence to her two art teachers, Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, from 15 May 1940 to 17 June 1943. Documents available at Hyman Dreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain Millbank, London SW1P 4RG〕 In the aftermath of the Second World War, Bettina travelled to the Continent. Countries such as Spain or France inspired her works and were subsequently exhibited at The Leicester Galleries and the Hanover Gallery. In 1958 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".〔''Reviews and previews:New names this month'' (May 1963) ARTnews. Volume 62. Number 3: p.64〕 Her 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".〔Maovaz, Sigfrido (1963), ''Bettina Shaw Lawrence,'' New York: Bodley Gallery Catalogue, OCLC 83884329〕 However, from the 1970s onwards, with the advent of abstract art, figurative artwork went into decline affecting the artist's self-confidence. Bettina Shaw-Lawrence has now settled permanently in Italy with her daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bettina Shaw-Lawrence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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