Betty Lou Brown spent the month of February honored as the Lenoir County Artist League’s featured “Artist of the Month.” Her watercolor, “Peaceful Solitude,” was on display throughout the month at the Community Council for the Arts, the league’s home.
Brown started painting when she was in the third grade. Her mother always encouraged creativity when she was growing up, whether through painting or piano lessons.
Her earliest mediums were watercolor and poster paints; by 18, she started working with oils. Now her preferred medium is watercolors. She finds layering with watercolors exciting and more challenging than other painting mediums because it is crisp, bright and unforgiving. She loves to paint portraits, still life, barns, trees, ocean scenes and flowers.
Her work has received recognition and has been in numerous exhibitions. She has been awarded first place in Lenoir County Artist Leagues’ LOCALS Only Juried show, and most recently received honorable mention in the 2012 show. She is a member of the Arts Council and the Lenoir County Artist League.
She has passed down the interest in and encouragement of art to her daughter, Debra Glissen, who is a watercolorist and art teacher in Goldsboro.