BETSY FORSTER

About the Artist

Betsy Forster is a landscape painter who works in acrylic or oil on canvas as well as mixed media and pastel. Like the Northern Romantic painters who sought the supernatural in the natural, she seeks that spiritual connection with nature. Dividing her painting time between en plein air painting and in the studio, all her works are inspired by the world outside. She feels a sense of awe and identification with the land itself.

Born in Madera, California, Forster spent most of her childhood in Dallas, Texas. Her childhood memories of the brown hills of California and the big skies of Texas are reflected in her desire to produce landscape paintings. She holds a B.A. in Elementary Education from Austin College and in Art from Auburn University, as well as her MFA in painting from American University. She lives in Washington D.C., but spends a great deal of time painting in Wyoming and Virginia.

Her most recent solo exhibition at Touchstone Gallery was Soul Food (November 2013).