“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
About the artist.....
Betsy Seeton is a native of Colorado and grew up spending time between the mountains and the city. Her love of the outdoors and urban life is woven throughout her art work. Her summer art studio is located located at 10,000 feet elevation with not a neighbor in sight.It's such a soul feeding place to spend time and be creative. She loves the solitude. Betsy helped build this log home with her ex using trees from her land and incorporated a lot of reclaimed windows, doors, and other recycled materials.
Betsy welding at her studio...
"I enjoy working with metal. When I was in Asia, I collected old tin from the Everest trek and along the Mekong river in Laos. I love old ceiling tiles and old, rusty roofing tin. Sometimes the rust and old paint turns a piece of metal into an abstract piece of art all by itself. "
Betsy's first art pieces beautifully and uniquely merged abstract painting on gypsum board with welded metal. The Guitar sold in 2008.
"Art is very much a reflection of one's life. I used to randomly break pieces of gypsum board and paint on whatever shape came from the broken pieces. The metal and gypsum board guitar piece (above) is an example of that period in my life. It was very much the way I lived. Life at that time was unplanned, unstructured, something I felt little control over, yet I enjoyed making the best of what came my way much the way we are often left to play the hand we're dealt.
It was a period of rebirth in some ways and coming full circle with myself in other ways. My 18-year old marriage had ended. I was in a new relationship and back in school going after a new profession. I thrived on being able to go with the flow and was wide eyed as I discovered (and rediscovered) new things about life and my place in it. Sometimes I would reach for a color because it was there or because I was drawn to it on almost an unconscious level and the designs and patterns emerged as I painted. I loved the freedom and spontaneity of that period."
It was a period of rebirth in some ways and coming full circle with myself in other ways. My 18-year old marriage had ended. I was in a new relationship and back in school going after a new profession. I thrived on being able to go with the flow and was wide eyed as I discovered (and rediscovered) new things about life and my place in it. Sometimes I would reach for a color because it was there or because I was drawn to it on almost an unconscious level and the designs and patterns emerged as I painted. I loved the freedom and spontaneity of that period."
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The online gallery has calendars, greeting cards, and prints that come matted, laminated, on canvas or framed.
Series Titled My Good Fortune
WEEDS - Print or original painting
The Code 36 x 30
In 2009, Betsy began working on a new style. She still paints on 1/4 inch gypsum board, but it's without integrating metal. Instead, it's framed with several different styles of wood.
Famous curator, Josine Ianco Starrels, explains the meaning of abstract art "... just as a mother sometimes hums songs to her children without using words, artists sometimes create paintings without replicating the appearance of things in everyday life."
Just Hanging Out
Someone Is Watching You
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