"Gilpin County Aspen II"

8 x 8

Oil

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Betsy Johnson Welty was born and raised in Denver. She attended Occidental College, graduating with honors and a B.A. in Fine Art with a focus in painting. To help pay the bills, she was editorial cartoonist and graphic designer for the campus newspaper and art directed campus publications after graduation. She returned to Denver to pursue a career

in graphic design and opened her own studio, garnering numerous design honors and awards, including a Colorado Governor's Citation.

Welty's love of painting never left her, and she has continued to develop her fine art, studying at the Art Students League of Denver and with artists Kevin Weckbach, SusieHyer, Mark Daily and Jordan Wolfson. She paints both en plein air and in the studio, in watercolor and oil. Her award-winning fine art has appeared in state and national juried shows as well as at Framed Image Gallery in Denver, Lone Tree Fine Arts Center, Curtis Center for the Arts, Main Street Fine Art Gallery, Evergreen, CO and Denver Central Library Vida Ellison Gallery. She works in both oil and watercolor, in the studio and en plein air. She is inspired by the landscape of Colorado and the West.
AWARDS:

2016 Honorable Mention, Evergreen Artists Association

2011 Best of Show, Center for the Arts, Evergreen Paint, Sculpt, Shoot Plein Air

2010 Honorable Mention, Denver Plein Air Arts Festival

2019 JURIED & INVITATIONAL SHOWS:

Women Artists of the West "Mountain Aire" 49th Annual Exhibition, Mary Willams Fine Art, Boulder , CO

Plein Air Artists of Colorado 23rd Annual National Exhibition Studio 8369, Grand Lake, CO

Cherry Hills Land Preserve Barn Party Art Show & Sale