Voices of Experience - Bethanne Kinsella Cople

A Walk Through the Woods 6 x 20” Oil

“I love painting the landscape en plein air. In the outdoors you can incorporate not only what you see, but the sounds and the smells of the landscape. All of this lets me convey the sense of wonder that I feel from the subject.”

Bethanne Kinsella Cople’s paintings are evocative responses to the moods of the landscape. Her love of the changing skies and land shows in her expressive brushwork. Cople is a frequent traveler, constantly capturing new landscapes in her painterly style. She has received many awards including the Award of Excellence from the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters and twice the Best Traditional Painting from the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibition at the National Art Club. She has served as President of the American Women Artists association for two terms.

We asked her to tell us about her earliest influences and if she received positive encouragement from a young age in her art making.