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Born
of Pembrokeshire parents, Beth Robinson was brought up in Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
She graduated in Music from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
and the Royal Academy of Music before embarking upon a career in opera.
Under the name Beth Michael she has worked with companies including Scottish
Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera,
Bayreuth Festival Opera and English Touring Opera, singing roles ranging
from Madam Butterfly, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, the Merry Widow to Cenerentola
and Carmen. For many years she was a member of the Royal Opera, Covent
Garden, where she met her husband Alan, a stage technician .
in performance
at Covent Garden
At the age of eleven,
Beth had to make the choice whether to study music or art, and although
she had experimented with silk painting, it was not until she and Alan
moved to Trefin in North Pembrokeshire, when she retired from singing due
to health problems that she was finally able to explore her talent for
painting.
From the first, she
has found a ready audience for her work, with its emphasis on the light
changes and moods of the North Pembrokeshire land and seascapes. Her work
is sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, but always demonstrate her
emotional response to the scene before her. Beth's paintings now hang in
many parts of the world, and are also owned by some well known artists.
Beth's work has been
exhibited both locally and nationally, and a couple of years ago was she
was one of only 100 artists across Britain invited to take part in the
prestigious Discerning Eye/ING Platform 100 exhibition in London and touring
throughout England.
Beth and Alan (who,
very conveniently, is now a picture framer!) now live in the foothills
of the Preselis with a menagerie of border collies and cats.
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