Bette Schumann named Artist of the Month for June
From Special Reports
The Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA) has selected Bette Schumann as its featured “Artist of the Month” for June. Mrs. Schumann’s art will be featured in the entry way to Newnan City Hall until July.
The daughter of a professional artist, art has always been woven in and out of Bette’s life in various forms. She has painted everything from murals on armoires to church buses, stenciled walls in homes, designed and painted yard ornaments, and a lot of commissioned work from pets to Irish golfers.
Most of her paintings are from photographs she takes herself or en plein-air. She especially enjoys the challenge of portraiture.
“It is so exciting when the personality of the subject is suddenly there, often with the tiniest brushstroke,” she says.
Recently, her pet portraits have become quite popular.
Bette paints primarily in oil, has been awarded numerous ribbons in art shows, has had several of her works selected to hang in the Georgia Capitol Building in Atlanta, the Wadsworth Auditorium in Newnan, and has been juried into the Itinerant Gallery in Carrollton, the Jackalope Gallery in Carrollton, Southern River’s Gallery in Pine Mountain, and the Bradley Street Gallery in
Carrollton.
She is a member of the Newnan-Coweta Art Association and the Portrait Society of America. Her art is featured in Morgan Jewelers on Highway 34 in Newnan. She paints, as she does everything else in her life, for the glory of God.
Bette is a member of NCAA. NCAA’s general meetings are held the third Monday of each month (from August through May) at the Harriet Alexander Art Center on Hospital Road at 6:30 p.m. An art demonstration is presented each month. Visitors and new members are always welcome.
