Elizabeth de Bethune

Artist Statement

I am a Yonkers, New York based representational image-maker and visual storyteller, making pictures of intimate and quotidian life, people, places and things; situations familiar but singular in their specificity. My imagery develops from observation and daily cell-phone photographic notetaking; they reflect my vision and experience and note the poignancy in our awareness of the ordinary. I see stories in the off-note moments, the seemingly unnoticed and intimate, the space between the beats of action. I work two-dimensionally with paint, drawing materials, collage and printmaking, within a painterly realist vernacular, with an active drawn line and open brush stroke. Although my images are often illusionistic, I stay connected to their objectness.