Noel Betowski (born 1952,

Tilbury Tilbury is a port town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. The present town was established as separate settlement in the late 19th century, on land that was mainly part of Chadwell St Mary. It contains a 16th century fort and an ancie ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

, England) is an artist living and working in Cornwall. He graduated from

Central School of Art and Design The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Cr ...

in 1976, having been taught by David Haughton. Betowski was a winner of the

John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...

prize in 1987 and 1988 and has exhibited at

Royal Cornwall Museum The Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro holds an extensive mineral collection rooted in Cornwall's mining and engineering heritage (including much of the mineral collection of Philip Rashleigh). The county's artistic heritage is reflected in the mus ...

, The Royal Academy and The National Portrait Gallery. Betowski is an elected member of the

Penwith Society of Arts The Penwith Society of Arts is an art group formed in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK, in early 1949 by abstract artists who broke away from the more conservative St Ives School. It was originally led by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, a ...

and a member of the

Newlyn Society of Artists Newlyn Society of Artists, often abbreviated to NSA, is an artists association founded in 1896. It is based in Newlyn, Cornwall. It was founded by a group of local artists to organise exhibitions at the new Newlyn Art Gallery built by John Passmore ...

. His work references

Entoptic phenomenon Entoptic phenomena () are visual effects whose source is within the human eye itself. (Occasionally, these are called entopic phenomena, which is probably a typographical mistake.) In Helmholtz's words: "Under suitable conditions light falling o ...

and

Dazzle camouflage Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine ar ...

which was used on shipping to confuse enemy guns in World War II. Image:Offspring2009.jpg, Offspring 2009

Publications

* ''St. Ives 1893-1993: Portrait of an Art Colony'' - Marion Whybrow ACC Art Books 1994. * ''St. Ives Revisited'' by Peter Davies Old Bakehouse Publications 1993 * ''Behind the Canvas'' - Sarah Brittain & Simon Cook Truran 2001 * ''Noel Betowski Illumination'' The Great Atlantic Galleries 2005. * ''St. Ives 1975-2005: Art Colony in Transition'' - Peter Davies St Ives Printing & Publishing Co 2007 * ''Noel Betowski-Triptych'' - Minchin 2009. * ''Noel Betowski - Out of Nowhere'' - Royal Cornwall Museum, exhibition catalogue 2011.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Betowski, Noel 1952 births Living people People from Tilbury 20th-century English painters English male painters 21st-century English painters 21st-century English male artists Alumni of the University of London Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design 20th-century English male artists

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