I want my art to look so tactile that you are tempted to run your fingers over it when no one is looking. Using the Cold Wax process to "fluff" up the paint, my work has the body and texture of encaustic. After years of working with encaustic, I have chosen to use cold wax instead. It gives the similar qualities of encaustic, but it is less dangerous and less toxic.

The texture reflects a life that is simultaneously beautiful and rough. I use colors that sometimes please but sometimes challenge. Offering the viewer other dimensions that keep appearing as you gaze at it, just as life does. But most of all, I want you to enjoy and appreciate my work.

Bettina attended Wellesley and has lived on Nantucket since the 70s. She is an artist and yoga instructor, and can be found at 7am down at the Bandstand at Children's Beach teaching her morning class.