"Bette Ridgeway is one of a very few whose works stand with and up to the standards of greatness set by Morris Louis and Charles Schucker who developed the poured paint style of painting in the late 1930's."
~ Walter Wickiser, New York 2025
View her newest film, “Romancing Color.”
Noteworthy Awards:
The artist was awarded the 2025 Leonardo daVinci International Prize by the Effetto Arte Foundation in Rome. Last year she won the Goya & Velasquez Prize. In 2023 the artist 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, Nexus Health in Santa Fe, NM , the University of New Mexico Hospital and the Christus St. Vincent Cancer Center in Santa Fe.
Exhibitions:
Global exhibitions in 88+ 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.
“The Winds of Change”
48
“Spectral Memory”
acrylic on canvas
50 x 66 inches (stretched)
acrylic with gold on canvas 52 x 48 inches (stretched)
48
“Fleeting Thoughts”
52 x 48 inches (rolled)
“Interlude”
acrylic on canvas
46 x 78 inches (stretched)
“Fleeting Glory” acrylic with gold & silver on canvas
56 x 48 inches (stretched
Four panels - total size
66 x 52 inches
with Time” & gold on canvas size 66 x 208 inches each (rolled)
with silver, gold and bronze on canvas inches ((stretched)
“Calypso” acrylic on canvas
87 x 50 inches (stretched)
“Origins” acrylic on canvas
48 x 84 inches (rolled)
“
Messages” acrylic on canvas
62 x 48 inches (stretched)
“Chasing the Stars” diptych framed acrylic with gold on canvas 24 x 20 inches each
“Reach for the Stars” acrylic on canvas 66 x 50 inches (stretched)
acrylic with gold on canvas 52 x 44 inches (stretched)
acrylic
60 x 50 inches (stretched)
acrylic with copper on canvas
42 x 56 (stretched)
42 x 56 inches (stretched)
48 x 62 inches (stretched)
64 x 48 (stretched
acrylic on canvas
inches (stretched)
58 x 46 inches
68 x 52 inches (stretched)
“Memories of the Future”
acrylic with gold and bronze on canvas
62 x 48 inches (stretched)
70 x 50 inches (stretched)
