Betty is a self-taught artist, only painting seriously since 2008, and exhibiting from mid 2009.

She has won numerous accolades and prizes since then. She was selected for the Salon des Refuses of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture and the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture in 2012, as well as for the Waterhouse Natural Science Prize in 2013.

Her work was selected with 4 other participants for "Down Under and Beyond - Art from Australia and New Zealand" in an Exhibition held in Agora Gallery in New York. As a result of this, her work is being featured in several publications in the USA.

Working in oils Betty's subjects are still life, flowers, animals and birds, and portraiture.