Beth Freeman-Kane - Wildlife Miniaturist

A brief biography.

Born in Australia in 1966, Beth came to South Africa with her family in 1970, where she has lived ever since.

Within the specialised field of miniature art, she is entirely self-taught, having displayed from the age of six a natural talent and passion for creating in miniature. This passion combined naturally with her other great love - for wildlife, mainly birds, to produce a style of work which is unique in its concept and execution.

Beth specialises in exquisitely detailed sculpture compositions of birds and their habitats, producing work that is recognised as being of a consistently high standard by the miniature art fraternity. As a result, her work is in great demand and she is one of the finest examples of the artists currently involved in the world wide revival in Miniature Art as a fine art form.

She has membership in the Miniature Art Society of South Africa, the Miniature Art Society of Florida, USA and the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers of Washington, DC, also in the USA, which are all linked to the World Federation of Miniaturists.

She is also a member of the International Guild of Miniature Artisans having qualified for the status of Artisan. She has been invited to teach a class at the IGMA Summer School in 2010.

Beth travels to the United States of America at least once a year to exhibit, and is regularly involved in Juried shows both internationally and locally. In South Africa, she has been one of the top sellers at the prestigious Art In The Park, held annually in Pietermarizburg, for the past 10 years.

She has collections of work in 3 museums in South Africa and in the United States of America.

Beth has won seventeen international awards to date, including the People's Choice Award for Best Artist On Show at the World Exhibition of Miniatures in 2008.

Beth lives in Assagay in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, surrounded by a husband, three children, dogs, cats, gerbils, goats, various hamsters and birds and a pot-bellied pig called Petunia!