Betina Fauvel-Ogden 

Betina has worked in advertising , fashion and as a children’s book illustrator both in Australia and overseas after achieving her Diploma of Art from RMIT in the late sixties.

She won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for the children’s book “ A Rabbit Named Harris “ and has illustrated fifteen Australian stamps and eight stamps for the United Nations in New York.

Betina is an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists Society, The Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors and a member of the Portrait Society of America.

Betina has exhibited in many art shows and her work was selected to hang in the prestigious Alice Bale Award in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Awards:
Best Bird Painting – Australian Wildlife Society  1997
Best Watercolour   - Australian  Wildlife Society  1998
Best Oil                  - Ivanhoe Girls Grammar  2004
Norman Kaye Memorial Medal – VAS  2004
Artist Of The Year  -  VAS  2004
Best Oil  - St Kevins College  2005
Best Oil Under $1500 – Ivanhoe Girls Grammar  2005
Peoples Choice Award – Australian National Maritime Painting Awards Melbourne 2005. 

Betina works in oil and watercolour, mixed media and is competent in all subjects.