Bethan Harris

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Artist Bio

Bethan's practice spans both drawing and painting, with a distinctive emphasis on colour as a tool for conveying emotion and atmosphere. Working intuitively, she often employs a repetitive mark-making process which repeats a singular motion.

Her approach blends observation with abstraction, capturing the ephemeral essence of nature with its movements, textures, and shifting play of light, reflecting different times of the day.

Harris’s process draws inspiration from personal memories, emotion and local history. Bethan Harris is an artist who specialises in drawing and painting.

She has exhibited and curated group shows at the Mall Galleries, The Holy Art Gallery and Willesden Gallery in London and The Hatton Gallery, Shieldfield Art Works, Gallagher and Turner and Globe Gallery in Newcastle. She presented her debut solo exhibition at Spread Creative in December 2022. In April 2024, Bethan was awarded the Young Persons Award for the Derwent Art Prize at the Oxo Tower in London. She has recently been shortlisted for the North East Emerging Artist Award 2025. She has participated in artist residencies in Northumberland and Wales and has completed public commissions for Newcastle University, Derwent and the Great North Museum.

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Selected Work

Name: Unhidden

This 6-colour lithograph using film captures a daytime landscape, using tonal contrasts and textural details characteristic of my style of mark-making. The work reflects my ongoing exploration of how light and colour shift through time and place.

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