Betsy Walton

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Betsy Walton is a native Kansan who now calls Portland, Oregon home. She left a full time job in October, 2006 to become a painter and illustrator. Since then, she has been painting day and night, answering emails, shipping packages, and meeting fascinating new people at every turn.

Many of her paintings and drawings explore the tension and balance between the mysterious nature of our existence and the objects and environments we find in everyday life.

She is influenced by Byzantine icon paintings, American folk art, geometric abstraction, and the work of many contemporary illustrators and painters.

She works with a spontaneous approach and few expectations of specific results.  She rarely sketches preliminary drawings before diving into a painting, in the belief that the image formed through the painting process itself will be rich, revealing, and vital.

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