Bethanys work is a general visual exploration of a central idea around kinship and grief during a time of ecological chaos. Tensions of beauty and ruination in our landscapes as well as explorations of what kin and interconnectivity might mean for our future are central to the work
"My painting is a visual journey back and forth between internal and external landscapes. I am drawn to the natural landscape - not the topographical elements, or ‘views’ in a moment of time, but rather the wider experience of belonging and loss within a place. My artistic language and internal landscapes are derived from culturally borrowed decorative objects of my childhood in Hong Kong where Chinese scroll painting as well as indigo dyed textiles formed the visual world in which I grew up. My external landscapes are the rural idyll of Wiltshire where I live: beautiful, eroding, fragile."