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Bette Jaedicke is an accomplished oil and watercolor artist. Her expressive style reflects her love of color and texture. Most of her oil paintings are completed “alia prima,” an Italian term meaning “at once” — without drying time in between.She has received numerous awards in the Rocky Mountain region. In 2007 one of her works was honored in a six-state juried show in Red Lodge, Montana. In 2006 her piece “Wine and Roses” appeared in the Scottsdale Artists’ School’s annual juried show, Best and Brightest. During 2006 she participated in invitational shows in Bozeman and Billings, Montana; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and at the Wilde Meyer Gallery’s “Dog Days of Summer,” show in Scottsdale, Arizona. One of her floral pieces appears in a book, Best of America: Oil Artists and Artisans. In 2008 Bette introduced a line of prints on decorative tile and cutting boards. In 2010 she began marketing jewelry – fine art pendant prints on mother of pearl.Bette has been juried into the Oil Painters of America and is a signature member of the Wyoming Watercolor Society. She has exhibited her work in galleries in Bozeman, Billings, Red Lodge, and Cody as well as Scottsdale and Sedona, and has had her work displayed in design and home furnishing centers. She donates art annually to fund-raising events for the Deaconess Hospital Foundation the Northern Rockies Radiation Oncology Center, Casting for Recovery, Faith in Practice and Refuge International (the latter Christian medical missions).
Her fine art training consists of the Scottsdale Artists’ School and workshops with various internationally known artists. Bette received her university education at San Francisco State University (B.A. Cum Laud Spanish and M.A. TESOL). She held positions at the United Nations, Georgia Tech and several schools and colleges. In addition to fine art, her interests include Bible study, horse packing in the wilderness, fly fishing, and yoga. She makes annual trips to Guatemala as an interpreter for medical missions. Profits from art sales in Antigua, Guatemala, are designated for medical treatment of the Indigenous Maya.
She is represented by Greenwich House Gallery in Cincinnati and also has work on exhibit at Red Brick Gallery in Ventura, California.
Faith in God is a big part of her life and her art. She quotes the writer Janice Eisheimer: “Our gifts are not from God TO us, but from God THROUGH us to the world.” Bette endeavors to perfect the artistic gift she has been given, committing her work to the Lord. (Proverbs 16:3) Soli Deo Gloria.
www.BetteJaedicke.com
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