Ridgeway Studio - Winter 2024

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Available work

Ridgeway Studio

“Today we can consider the artist Bette Ridgeway as the one and only true heir of Paul Jenkins: her mentor and teacher. Ridgeway's painting is dynamic and rhythmic; like the most “enlightened” of contemporary composers, Bette traces on canvas what is her ideal score. There is a tacit harmony of color and movement which, through the elegance of the castings, leads the viewer to question the true meaning of art".

~ Dr. Salvatore Russo, art critic and curator in Rome, Italy. (excerpt from a critical review in 2024)

Above: Spectral Veil

“My paintings are a spontaneous occurrence, born of experience, but maturing reflexively in the process of creation. My technique is controlled improvisation. Gravity is my medium. Images are caught with intent”. It is best explained in this short film.

Photo: Jo Ellen Thompson
Cover painting: “Spectral Veil”

Recent Awards:

The artist has won the Leonardo daVinci International Prize for 2024 which was presented in Milan in April. In 2023 Ridgeway received both the Leonardo DaVinci International prize and the Michelangelo Prize. Other notable awards include: 2022 Caravaggio Prize, Top 60 International Contemporary Masters by Art Tour International Magazine and the Oxford University Alumnae Award at Chianciano Museum in Florence, Italy.

Selected Collections:

The Mayo Clinic, Federal Reserve Bank and the John Deere Corporate Collection, the Boro Tower in Tysons, Va are amongst Ridgeway’s many permanent public placements. Others include: The Sammons Trauma Center, Methodist Hospital, Dallas, TX, Northwestern University, and the University of New Mexico Hospital.

Exhibitions: Global exhibitions in 85+ museums, universities and galleries, including: Palais Royale, Paris, Embassy of Madagascar , DC and the inaugural London Art Biennale.

Recent Press & Publications:

Interview with Contemporary Art Magazine, Monk Magazine UK Interview, Its Liquid, Apero Magazine , Click here for a film on her largest public commission.

acrylic with gold on canvas

62 x 44 inches (stretched)

Spectral Veil”

62

“Dancing With Rainbows” acrylic with gold on canvas
x 52 (rolled)
“Toward Proxima b” acrylic with gold on canvas 40 x 52 (stretched)

60 x 54 (stretched)

“The Birth of Light”
acrylic with gold & bronze on canvas

Acrylic with copper & gold on canvas

68 x 48 inches (rolled)

The Spark of Being
“Mindscape” acrylic with gold on

on linen 66 x 84 inches (rolled)

“Spectral Memory”

acrylic on canvas 52 x 66 inches (stretched)

“Lotus” acrylic with gold and bronze
bronze on canvas 50 x 84 inches (rolled)
“Lotus II” acrylic with gold and bronze
bronze on canvas 50 x 84 inches (rolled)

64 x 48 inches (rolled)

Neptune’s Daughter” acrylic with gold on canvas

72 x 48 inches (rolled)

“Becoming”
acrylic with gold and bronze on canvas

“Monsoon Season”

acrylic on canvas

36 x 52 inches (rolled)

“The Flames of Passion” acrylic on canvas
64 x 50 inches (rolled)
“An Awakening”
acrylic with gold on canvas
58 x 53 inches (rolled)
“Harmony” acrylic with gold & bronze

bronze on canvas

78 x 76 inches (rolled)

“Spectral Vision” acrylic with on canvas

68 x 52 inches (stretched)

canvas

62 x 48 inches (stretched)

Messages”
acrylic with on canvas
“Autumn Gold” acrylic with bronze on canvas 52 x 46 inches (rolled)
“Transformation”
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches (stretched)

66

50

“Pas de Deux” acrylic canvas
x
inches (stretched)

“A Star is Born” acrylic with gold on canvas 56 x 42 inches (rolled)

48 x 32 inches (stretched)

“Etude with Blue” acrylic on canvas
“Spectral Wonder”
acrylic with gold on canvas
42 x 46 inches (stretched)

“Spectral Window”

acrylic with gold on canvas

48 x 29.5 inches (stretched)

“Memories of the Future” acrylic with gold and bronze on canvas 62 x 48 inches (stretched)

acrylic on canvas 51 x 79 inches (framed)

Emissary
“Storm Over Santa Fe” acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches (rolled)
“The Color of Joy” acrylic with gold on canvas 60 x 48 inches (rolled)

acrylic

58 x 50 inches

“Garden of the Mind”
with gold on canvas

“Beyond” acrylic with gold , silver, pink gold on canvas 60 x 42 inches (rolled)

“We’re Havin’ a Heat Wave”

acrylic

on canvas

52 x 80 inches (rolled)

IInterlude

acrylic on linen

46 x 76 inches (stretched)

72 x 50 inches (stretched)

“Tangerine” acrylic on canvas
“The Three Graces”
acrylic on canvas
90 x 54 inches
Framed in light maple

“Summer Symphony”

acrylic with copper on canvas 58 x 48 inches (stretched)

56 x 48 inches (rolled)

“Sea Breezes”
acrylic with gold & bronze on canvas
“C’mon Baby Light My Fire” Acrylic on canvas 54 x 44 inches (stretched)
“Turning the Tide”
52 x 64 inches

acrylic on canvas

inches (stretched)

58 x 50 inches (rolled)

Fleeting Thoughts” acrylic on canvas

52 x 48 inches (stretched)

Arrival II”
acrylic on canvas

60 x 38 inches (rolled)

“Dancing Again” acrylic on canvas
“ A Day at the Circus”

60 x 48 inches (rolled)

acrylic with gold on canvas
“ Mary’s Mums”
acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches (rolled)

acrylic on canvas

28 x 52 inches (rolled)

“Windy Blues”

104

“Weaving Life Together” acrylic on canvas
x 54 inches (rolled)

78 x 54 inches Framed

The Garden in Snow” acrylic on canvas

44 x 44 inches (stretched)

“Wisdom Keepers” acrylic on canvas

“Light in the Chaos” Diptych acrylic with gold leaf on cradled boards 12 x 12 inches each

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