Portrait of a Designer
Betsey DeLoache, a native of Lexington, Massachusetts, has lived in several other states including Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, and South Dakota, moving back to South Carolina in February 2018. Her formal education emphasized the liberal arts and she graduated with a degree in Sociology from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Betsey is a cross-stitch designer as well as an artist. Betsey’s design studio began as an easel-table in her living room and eventually developed into a retail design and custom framing business, in 1982, called Red Bird Studio. Betsey is a Certified Picture Framer (CPF), receiving her certification in 1988.
During the time Betsey was running her retail business in Cheraw she met an author, Linda Timberlake, who in 1987, asked her to illustrate a children’s book about the Civil War, Barney's Blessing. In 1989 Linda asked Betsey to illustrate Now Let Dixie Reign: A Poetic Tribute to Jefferson Davis, both currently available at Red Bird Studio.
Reopening Red Bird Studio in 2004-2018 in Pierre, South Dakota, gave Betsey a place to devote to her framing, artwork, writing, and designing.
Red Bird Studio relocated to Edisto Island, SC in February 2018. Betsey works as an artist and author, no longer framing. She can be reached by phone, text at 605-222-0665 or email betseydsd@redbirdstudiosd.com
