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Biography

 

Sephardi artist Bettina Caro was born in Casablanca. When moving to Spain in 1973, she studied art and architecture at the University of Madrid. Bettina has now lived and worked in London since 1981.

In 2010, the artist was commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to create a number of paintings to celebrate their 250th anniversary. Her evocative paintings capture the light and vibrancy of her North African childhood and she is also renowned for her landscapes of the Mediterranean and of the Holy Land. She is also much in demand as a portrait painter. ​

 

Bettina paints on canvas and board, using oils to create rich tones, acrylics for their intensity, watercolours for their delicacy and gold leaf to add that transformative touch of Mediterranean sunlight.

 

Her works are in the permanent collection of the Ben Uri Gallery in London and the Centro Sepharad in Madrid and are on permanent public display at the Northwood  and Pinner Liberal Synagogue and the S&P Sephardi Synagogue as well as the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. She enjoys taking large and small private commissions, from the King of Spain commemorating the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews to a local London family celebrating a simcha.​