Silver And Gold

Lois Etherington Betteridge was born in Drummondville, Quebec in 1928. She attended the Ontario College of Art before graduating, B.F.A., from the University of Kansas in 1951 and M.F.A. from Cran brook Academy of Art in 1956. She has worked as a studio artist-craftsman since 1952, mostly in Canada but with six-year period in England ending in 1967. After thirteen years in Ottawa, she moved to Mont-St-Hilaire, Quebec in 1980. 

Her commissioned works have encompassed jewellery, ecclesiastical silver and secular holloware, including pieces for Canadian premiers and prime ministers as well as for statesmen from other countries. She has shown in over 75 exhibitions in Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan, has juried extensively and has toured as a lecturer in Europe and Scandinavia.