Elizabeth Anne Tyner

Artist’s BIO

Elizabeth Anne Tyner
(aka Bettyanne Gargaro)

Dabbling in art started in elementary school. When I ought to have been paying attention, I would draw, mostly human faces and animals, much to the chagrin of my teachers.

I didn’t return to art, however, until after I retired from the position of Associate Registrar, Queen’s University, although for sometime before retirement, I had a tentative plan to do so. Fortunately, an after-retirement friend was (and still is) an experienced artist who introduced me to watercolour. But after enrolling in a day-long oil painting course that had been advertised in a local newspaper, I was hooked.

Although, I have taken the occasional one-day oil painting workshop, my learning has been aided by on-line tutorials, but mostly by trial and error. Indeed, what I find most appealing about painting is the learning experience, through problem solving. In fact, I view the starting of each painting solely as a problem-solving experience which helps to get started, often the biggest challenge!

My painting hobby has been immensely helpful over the past two pandemic years when other activities got sidelined. And now that I think I have learned at least the basics of oil painting, I’m considering picking up a watercolour brush again for new and different challenges.