{"id":57,"date":"2023-05-17T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldings.urbancoot.uk\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T08:52:29","slug":"betty-johnson-nee-golding-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldings.urbancoot.uk\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"Betty Johnson (nee Golding), artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“”I don’t regard my efforts as ‘art’ but rather as decoration.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Betty was a highly creative person. She worked with a variety of media through her life. She enjoyed drawing and painting watercolours. She made embroideries. She designed and dyed curtains. Her great love, however, was the medium of batik. Between May 1974 and May 1988 she produced at least 139 batiks which were major works, suitable for wall-hangings. She experimented constantly, with a variety of techniques, cloth, waxes, colours and themes. She kept detailed notes of her procedures for each of the batiks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems to me that her works are certainly decorative, but they go far beyond decoration. The inventiveness, range and execution seem to me to be worthy of being called genuine graphic art of the highest order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had exhibitions at the Anglo-Mexican Institute and at the Galleria Kin in Mexico City. The photos below are from the exhibition at Galleria Kin in San Angel, Mexico City. In 1978, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n