Becky Bettesworth Art
The 1930s Travel Poster, Brought Back To Life.
Becky Bettesworth spent her early career as an art director in a London advertising agency, winning a national award along the way, before deciding that South Devon was a considerably better place to look at than a meeting room. She moved down in 2001. The work in the style you see here began in 2013, when she was invited to exhibit at Greenway, the National Trust house above the Dart that was once Agatha Christie's, and the nostalgic setting turned out to suit the pictures so exactly that the whole career pivoted around it.
The inspiration is the golden age of the British railway poster, the ones that made Scarborough look like the Riviera, redrawn with a fresh pastel palette and a quiet joke or two. The places are real and specific: Salcombe with its fleet of small boats, Bantham, Polzeath, Fowey, Padstow, Kynance Cove, Torquay, and a fair distance beyond the West Country besides. Prints come on FSC certified matt paper in A4 and A2, with framed versions made to order, and they do exactly what the originals did, which is make you want to go there immediately.
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