Techniques of Painting and Gilding in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy

Ursula Betka (Ph.D. Trecento art history - University of Melbourne; B. Ed., Art & Design) is a Melbourne-based exhibiting artist and iconographer, art historian, writer and teacher who welds a background of scholarship and extensive teaching in Medieval and early Renaissance art history with her revival of workshop practices in tempera painting and decorative gilding on wood panel. Ursula’s artistic practice is inspired by her spiritual vision and deeply informed by her European and Celtic origins. Her work is represented in numerous churches and chapels throughout Australia and in various public collections such as the Australian Catholic University (ACU) Art Collection of Australia and Australia Post Melbourne, Victoria.