Beth Robinson

I was brought up in Chepstow,  Monmouthshire, though my parents were from Pembrokeshire. I graduated in Music from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music before embarking upon a career in opera. Under the name Beth Michael I worked with companies including Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Bayreuth Festival Opera and English Touring Opera, singing roles ranging from Madam Butterfly, Tosca,  Manon Lescaut, the Merry Widow to Cenerentola and Carmen. For many years I sang with  the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where I met my husband Alan, who worked there as a stage technician .   At the age of eleven, I had to make the choice whether to study music or art, and although I’d experimented with silk painting, it was not until we moved to Trefin in North Pembrokeshire, when I retired from singing, that I was finally able have a go at something I’d hankered after for years – painting on canvas, board and paper.                From the first, I’ve been lucky enough to find a  ready audience for my work,  and at the start of my painting career  I was one of only 100 artists across Britain invited to take part in the prestigious Discerning Eye/ING Platform 100 exhibition in London and touring throughout England.  Over  the years I have shown my work in many galleries in West Wales and from 2002 until 2016 I could be found in my little studio gallery Oriel Glan y Mor in the centre of the north Pembrokeshire coastal town of Fishguard.  I have had several solo exhibitions  at Oriel y Parc, St Davids, Picton Castle and the Victoria Fearn Gallery in Cardiff,  and taken part in various group exhibitions at Aberglasney, Waunifor, Cardigan, Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiff, Cornwall  and St Davids.  I have been commissioned to produce paintings both home and abroad – one of the most interesting was a very large painting commissioned by Valero which was unveiled by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (now Prince and Princess of Wales).

Click here for past  exhibitions list

I now work from my studio which is  attached to our house. We are inland from Newport , Pembrokeshire,  in Crosswell (Ffynongroes),  not far from Brynberian.  If you’d like to come and see my work, please telephone or email me using the address at the top of this page. I take part in the North Pembrokeshire Open Studios Trail in the late summer, but am happy to be visited all through the year as long as you check beforehand that I am around.

Forthcoming exhibition –  Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting: Mythau   

at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery: 14/12/2024 – 23/01/2025