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Many of Robert Betteridge's paintings are paired with poems to suggest additional meaning on top of the imagery. They will be given in the descriptions of his artworks after their titles.

Robert no longer has a studio, and as such has picked up the pen and pencil. He still makes poetry, and art to accompany it.

Robert Betteridge Audio CD

In this 46 minutes, audio track Robert details his life and experience. The art on the CD is a print of his Mandala artwork.

The Scribble

The Scribble is a very different art piece. He first made this piece by testing out a pen to see if it works. There is also a poem associated with this.

To Noah-Isla Mae

And the child

Do not deride this drawing

Do not belittle this

Innocent intuitive desire

To wrent the dark curtains

And Clouds of doubt and despair

Drawn over this font

Imaging imagining imagination

And creating cosmic realization

By those who dwell in fear

Do not scold them for simply

Having been born young

For his is the eve and the hand

Of an “I am” that is “among”

Born of god in the making

Born of god evolving

To be the becoming

To be

Amen Amen

Rather wrap and immerse

That spontaneous

Unpretentious

Burst of play

And interplay

In love

That life may bloom

Eternally.

Pink Purifications

Robert has a series of prints he calls his "Pink Purifications" which go over the big bang, life, and armageddon.

After we took this picture, Robert recalled a time he had arranged mirrors in such a way that when he took a picture of himself in it using the flash that it made him look like a mystical spooky figure and asked us to keep this shot in because of it.

Lark in the Meadow

Robert recollected that while he was painting, he noticed a lark had snuck in the paint.

Morning Misty Mountain

Part of a series of mountain paintings that Robert made in a time of his life where he was constantly travelling.

Microphotographs

These were not made by Robert, but rather his son, and they seem to be a source of inspiration to him. They show the chemical structure of various everyday materials.

Taj Mahal

Robert recollected that he was painting the Taj Mahal and then realized that it looked similar to the legislature buildings in Regina.

Tree of Life

Thorn Crown Ascension

All the painful points

The points of pain

Becoming blissful beams

Beams of light

Blissful light

Disintegrating

Radiating outward

Toward the centre

A breakdown

A breakup

A breakthrough

Of consciousness

Toward that outward

That infinite centre

That All in One

That One in All

All One One all

As One in Love

Golgothan Day Requiem

The die was thus cast

By that Golgothan

Day dark deed

Whereby Love would

Transcend the tomb

To achieve

Eternal realization

in the light of All

Provided by

That One

That Love

Cyclopean Repas/A Minotaur's Menu

A Cyclops and

A Minotaur that

Bullheaded being

With a body like

Unto that of a man

Consuming

Consuming

Consuming

With a one-eyed

Lack of vision

The dettritic debris

That he has produced

That befouls his insight

And his daily diet

Causing his

Godly intuition

To fail

Trancsending the Veil

Ascending from out the dark

Into the light

To confront the veil of

Cosmic consciousness

Above and beyond

Is the realization

Of a divine conscience

That of an Eternal Love

Forever evolving.