BIOGRAPHY
"To paint a portrait, you must fall in love a little with
the subject."
Beren deMotier first exhibited animal portraits and
executed commissions on Vancouver Island, in 1976, when she was twelve. Later,
after gaining an arts degree from the University of Washington, she painted and
showed portraits of modern primitives in Seattle, and then resumed her portrait
work of animals in 2003, in Portland, Oregon. Her artwork has been exhibited at Caffe Destino, Green Dog
Pet Supply, Urban Fauna, juried exhibition "The Art Show at the Dog Show" and at Inavale Farms Horse Trials, June 2008. She has donated portraits to the DoveLewis
Wet Nose Soiree, da Vinci Arts MiddleSchool, Fernwood Middleschool,
Multnomah Playschool, Artists for Alameda and the Children's Cancer Association
Heroes Gala.
Beren shares her Portland home with her spouse, their three
children, a guinea pig, a rabbit, one fish, and a Labrador the
size of a small horse.
