Ghost Orchid Antiques and Collectibles is excited to announce a new addition to its website.  The new content will be featured as: Elegant Artists.  The goal is to offer a forum for artists (whether established or new on the scene) who represent different genres, styles, categories and classes of “art”.

I envision Elegant Artists as a “virtual” Gallery with a global audience, and, hopefully, an environment conducive to lively discussion and constructive commentary.

It is with great personal pride that I introduce our First Elegant Artist:

Bettina M. Lesieur

Bettina resides and creates at her home and Gallery in Duxbury, Massachusetts.     Bettina and I met 30 years ago as Freshmen attending a very small University in a very rural area in Northern Maine.  Culture shock made us fast friends, and, even with all the twists, turns and trials life brings over the years Betts has remained a “constant” and a true friend.

During these years of friendship, I have also had pleasure in observing her increasing depth and development  as an artist.  When I look around my apartment, I see examples of every stage of her career thus-far, and it makes me smile.

Bonnie R. McFee, President
Ghost Orchid Antiques & Collectibles, Inc.

Bettina M. Lesieur

Bettina M. Lesieur is a Massachusetts native who resides and displays her paintings at her gallery in Duxbury, Massachusetts.  Her style is characterized as traditional, her medium oils. Featured in the gallery display is an impressive variety of landscapes, seascapes, etc., some inspired by her travels through the very countryside of Europe made famous by the work of old masters, themselves.

You can also see an array of South Shore, Cape Cod and the Islands scenes as well, which easily explains the gathering of interest of Bettina’s work amongst art enthusiasts of a widening area. Her increasing awards at several prestigious juried exhibits has attracted numerous commissions from both private and corporate sectors.

Bettina’s inherent talent has played a significant role in her considerable progress in painting since she had the distinct advantage of having both parents themselves, involved in artistic careers. They were both graduates of the Vesper George School of Art and were students of the late Henry Hensche.

Her mother, the late Maria Lesieur, majored in fashion design and illustration while enjoying much success with watercolor and oil as an impressionist. This was finally capped by several years spent as an instructor at the School of Fashion Design in Boston.

Her father, the late Robert Lesieur, began his career with commercial art, and for some forty years as a free-lancer, he spent servicing some of Boston’s predominant ad agencies as well as direct client activity. He was also an instructor at Boston University in the field of Commercial Design. In recent years, he had returned to his first love, that of painting watercolors, pastels, and various treatments in black and white and had been active in exhibiting his work in the Boston area.

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