Betty lives with her husband, Phil, and five cairn terriers on the beautiful west coast of Washington State where inspiration is abundant.  She has studied with local artist Marjorie Mankin and with Gerald Brommer, nationally known watercolor artist.  Her favorite subjects are dogs at which she is expert, understanding canine expression and conformation.  Betty has paintings hanging all over the US and is represented by White Dove Gallery in Washington State, although most of her work is by commission.  Portraits of horses, cats, llamas and other animals are interspersed with human portraiture.  

Phil, is the patient one.  His eyes roll to the heavens and a subtle smile sweeps his face when Betty leaps to her feet from the dinner table and exclaims that she has to put an idea on paper but he's smart enough to figure out that she has conned him into the dishes....again!  But Betty admits her time at the easel would be greatly reduced if it were not that Phil helps care for the dogs and the house.