Bethany Browne is a contemporary impressionist painter who lives and works in North Stonington, CT. She captures the simple beauty of life around us. Her impressionist paintings are a window to the transcendent feeling of nature. She often focuses on the relationship between objects, and the feeling behind what is seen. Her greatest focus is portraying the beauty of things around us in nature in a way that is accessible to everyone. 

The artist enjoys the outdoors: hiking, kayaking, and taking walks with her children. Her love of animals and the outdoors often inspires her work. She paints both en plein air and in the studio. Bethany works in oils and acrylics, on canvas or gessoboard. Her use of color, light, and focus on the relationship between objects are portrayed by her loose brushwork and layered application of paint.

  Bethany has a degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting from Gordon College, where she studied under master painter, Bruce Herman. Her senior thesis exhibit there focused on the shapes and relationships that exist when horses are free and in community. Since then, she has shown her paintings at the Virtu Art Festival in Westerly, RI, painted book cover art, designed and painted murals in schools and private residences, and taught art in schools and special programs. She has also painted commissions and completed several series of paintings including hands, flowers, pregnancy & birth, monoprint silhouettes, and independent abstract work. Most recently, she has started painting live at weddings: capturing the first dance, the couple in the landscape of their reception site, or the back of the bride. Bethany paints life with the feeling that comes from an experience and strives to make that connection and experience for the viewer.