Bettina Dickson Rusher

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Large substrates to small, mixed media to oil, artist Bettina Dickson Rusher can’t be placed in a box.  She is inspired by her emotions, life experiences, the natural world and the places she has travelled to. Bettina’s father always said, “Bettina feels things deeply.” Bettina uses unusual tools to capture unique marks. She likes to experiment with whatever she can find to create visual interest. She calls it “playing in the paint.” This is where she finds surprising magic. Her signature marks include big brush strokes, drips, splatters, carving back into the paint to reveal surfaces underneath, intertwining and bold shapes creating movement. Her largest canvases begin on the floor working very fast to purposefully create a mess. It’s the initial meses that becomes the first layer of the piece. Top layers incorporate transparency and texture. During the final phases she tilts the piece up onto the easel for some simplifying and refinement. She relies heavily in the end on her intuition and design skills.

Bettina received a BA in Art & Design from Eastern Kentucky University in 1984. Bettina's education at EKU included a minor in Business. She continued her art education in San Francisco from 1991- 1994 at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Bettina’s art can be found in private collections in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee , Virginia ,Wyoming and Germany. Her corporate/ institutional clients include Oracle in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle Washington, and The University of Kentucky in Lexington Kentucky.

Bettina welcomes the opportunity to design and implement commissioned pieces for homes and corporate spaces.

Bettina also conducts intellectual talks on Art & Brain Science with Neuro-aesthetics scientist Chase Royer.  Please contact Bettina for more information.