David Betterton Miscellany

“Everything has already been thought and said: we can at best express it in different forms.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist.

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Monday, 23 March 2026

Pastel Mist at Dawn

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  Mist at Dawn - 2022 Pastels help softness, diffusion, and tonal harmony. The mist isn’t just a background effect. Maybe a sense of quiet s...
Sunday, 15 March 2026

North Sea Oil: Climate, Economics, and the Failure of Long-Term Imagination

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The argument over new North Sea oil and gas licences has become another of those strangely binary debates that now dominate British public l...
Friday, 13 February 2026

The Bettertons of Hatherop, Gloucestershire: A Family History Snapshot

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  In the late eighteenth century, the quiet Gloucestershire village of Hatherop was home to a small cluster of families whose names appear a...
Saturday, 31 January 2026

Some Images in Paint and Pencil

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  A few images created over time 2010-2018. Mostly acrylic on wood blocks, but also pencil sketches and a couple of  larger pieces 
Sunday, 27 July 2025

A Kelling Memory

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  Autumn and winter days at our cottage in Kelling were marked occasionally by the arrival of guests of the Kelling estate. These guests - p...
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