Leni Betes

I was born in the beautiful Canary Islands. I began to study piano at the age of six. And at this early age I also began to create poetry and painting. Once in College I decided to balance my knowledge and to study Science, earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands in 1980.

In 1981 I worked in my own Pharmaceutical Laboratory in the Island of Lanzarote for several years. Inspired by the intense beauty of the volcanic island, I wrote more than five hundred poems during my time on the island. After my visit to the Studio of Painting and Sculpture of the great artist, Cesar Manrique and impressed by his works, I decided to move to Madrid, next to the Prado Museum, one of the biggest galleries of art in the world, where I could study the old masters as Goya, Velazquez, el Greco, Picasso, Dali, Sorolla and Murillo. I took classes with the great Spanish painter Miguel Arguello. I also studied in the Academy of Photography of Madrid, for two years of intensive studies of classic photography. In 1986 I did a photographic tour around Spain for a year.

In 1991 I returns to the Canary Islands and opened a studio of Painting and Printmaking with my husband. In 1996 I created the Club of the Women Painter...

ACADEMIA DE FOTOGRAFIA DE MADRID
1984-1986

ART CLASSES AND INTERSHIP WITH MASTER OF SPANISH REALISM
MIGUEL ARGUELLO
1996-1999

ART EXPO NEW YORK 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014

GALERIA DEL HOTEL REINA ISABEL, LAS PALMAS



ART THE PALM, GALLERY, PALM BEACH FLORIDA

THE DIGITAL ART GALLERY, CLEARWATER, FL