BETTINA CARO ART EXHIBITION AND FILM SHOW

Please join us in the Bloomstein Hall to see this exciting exhibition , together with a showing of an outstanding film (one hour only) about the integration of Jews into German Society after their liberation from the Ghetto, about survival and the extraordinary place of music in the Concentration Camps. Featuring the Music of BACH, MENDELSSOHN, MAHLER, BRUCH SCHUMANN, BLOCH...YES, AND WAGNER. With Ashkenazi, Bareboim, Kissin, Permla and Zuckerman. With the Cologne Opera Chorus.

About Bettina - Bettina was born in Tangiers, Morocco, in 1955 into a well established Sepharad family. Bettina is a direct descendant from Rabbi Yosef Caro, author of the Shulhan Aruch. At an early age, she developed an aptitude for drawing which was heartily encouraged. In the 1970s she moved to Madrid with her family where she studied art and architecture at the Complutense, developing her artistic techniques and establishing herself as a portrait painter. Bettina came to England in 1981. Since that time, she has worked continuously in oils, watercolour and gouache. Today, her subjects range from still life to breathtaking landscape and Jewish themes. Her unique approach to biblical subjects conveys the intensity of impressionism, an approach that the viewer is able to relate to with warmth and understanding. Her inspirations come mainly from her love of travel which has enabled her to combine her 'Jewish themes' with her passion for sun and colour found in her landscapes of Israel, Provence and Tuscany. You can feel the wonderful Mediterranean heat in her paintings and be entranced by the rich and varied colours.