About Bets
Bets Cole sells and shows her artwork nationwide. Working primarily in the plein air tradition, she paints outside in the landscape with immediacy and openness. She welcomes the challenge of exploring and painting unfamiliar places. Her choice of medium – whether acrylic, watercolor, gouache or charcoal – is dictated by the subject matter, colors, and quality of light specific to each location.
When she is not traveling, Bets works from her studio in her home on an eighty-acre farm in Oregon.
Represented by:
Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, Oregon Salem Art Association, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, Oregon
Publications:
Pacific Threshold, Sandgren & Sandgren, Painting the Oregon Coast with Friends published by Oregon State University (2024)
What Will Nature Do? published by The Corvallis Arts Center (2021) Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational published by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (2019)
Microbiomes: To See the Unseen published by The Corvallis Arts Center (2017)
David McCosh: Learning to Paint is Learning to See by Roger Saydack (2017)
Strokes of Genius 4: The Best of Drawing by Rachel Rubin Wolf (2012)
La Petite Éclaircie: A Journal of Paintings by Bets Cole (2011)
This Bountiful Place: Art about Agriculture, the Permanent Collection by Shelly Curtis (2006)
Organizations:
Plein Air Painters of Lane County
Women Painters West
Women Artists of the West
California Art Club
American Impressionist Society