Phyllis Bethune


Phyllis Dagmar Drummond Bethune was a New Zealand artist.
Work by Bethune is held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and she helped form several New Zealand art societies.

Education

Bethune was educated at the Canterbury College School of Art under Cecil Kelly, Richard Wallwork, and A. F. Nicholl. Her contemporaries included Ngaio Marsh, James Cook, Evelyn Page, and Olivia Spencer Bower.

Career

Bethune was a landscape painter, primarily based in the South Canterbury region of New Zealand.
Bethune was involved in New Zealand art societies including as a committee member of the South Canterbury Art Society, the formation of an art society in Waimate, and founding the Wānaka Art Group.

Exhibitions

Bethune exhibited with:
From 1936 to 1947 she was a member of The Group and exhibited with them in 1935 ; 1936; 1938; 1940; 1943; 1947.

Personal life

She married John Bethune in October 1935 in Woodbury, Canterbury, New Zealand. She moved to Wānaka later in life, and died there in 1982.