{"id":622289,"date":"2026-06-05T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622289\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:19:09","slug":"artists-gallery-dream-realised-on-eve-of-96th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622289\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist&#8217;s gallery dream realised on eve of 96th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When artist Betsy Smith moved back to the UK from France, she set her sights on staging an art gallery exhibition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And on the eve of her 96th birthday in August, her dream is about to become a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Betsy Smith: Memory in Colour runs at Wolverhampton Art Gallery from Saturday 6 June to Monday 31 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her lifelong passion for art saw her run art classes in Shropshire until she was 80, having retired at 60 to focus on painting full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When artist Betsy Smith moved back to the UK from France, she set her sights on staging an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}