Family life

And apparently she was a very successful mother.
Below: her daughter Anne

Above: In those years Betty's sister Foi spent increasingly long parts of her time with her, eventually moved fully in at Winsley and and became Betty's good company (from left: Foi, Anne and Betty)

Betty and Foi travelled together,  Betty took part in art seminars, painted extensively and introduced children into arts and painting; several of her pupils later became artists themselves.

left and below: water colours from France in the 1970ies and 80ies.

Right:
Watchet
harbour

left:
Bicknoller church

In 1967 Betty's husband Frank died.  The whole responsibility for the family,  particularly for 11-year-old Anne, now lay with Betty. Maybe her expressive

, painted in one of the following years, somehow shows the strong impact of this burden and her ability to cope with it.

above: Betty sketching (mid-nineties in Germany) and one of the water colours she then was working at