by Bette Ridgeway
Opens September 26, 2025
Eros Romancing Color
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 1930s."
-Walter Wickiser, New York, 2025 View “Romancing Color” the film.
Photo: Jo Ellen Thompson
Cover painting: “Haiku with Red”
Recent Awards:
The artist has been awarded the 2025 Leondardo da Vinci International Prize by the Effetto Arte Foundation in Rome. Last year she won the Goya & Velasquez Prize. 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, John Deere corporate collection, and the Boro Tower in Tysons Corner, VA are amongst Ridgeway's many permanent, public placements. Others include the Nexus Health Center in Santa Fe, the Charles A. Sammons Trauma and Critical Care Tower of Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, Northwestern University, the University of New Mexico Hospital, and the Christus St. Vincent Cancer Center in Santa Fe.
Exhibitions:
Global exhibitions in 85+ museums, universities and galleries, including: World Art Fair, Dubai, Three Shadows Gallery, Beijing, Palais Royale, Paris, 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.
62 x 44 inches
“Spectral Veil”
acrylic with gold on canvas
“Haiku With Red”
x 50
acrylic on canvas inches
“Prelude to a Dream I” acrylic with
x 52
with silver, gold and bronze on canvas inches
“Promises”
acrylic with gold on canvas
36 x 44 inches
“Chasing the Light” acrylic with gold on canvas
54 x 44 inches
“Interlude” acrylic
acrylic on canvas inches
“Deep Dive” acrylic
with gold on canvas inches
“
It Was More Than A Flirtation
Flirtation” acrylic on canvas inches
58 x 46 inches
“Anatomy of a Dream” acrylic with gold and silver on canvas
64
“Crysallis” acrylic on canvas
x 44 inches
“Ascendance acrylic on canvas
“Double Vortex”
acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 inches
“Be Still My acrylic on
32 x 52
My Heart” on canvas inches
“The Birth of Orion” acrylic with gold and silver on canvas 40 x 54 inches
64
“Some Like it Hotter” acrylic on canvas
x 48 inches
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48 x 58 inches (horizontal or vertical)
Etude with Blue” acrylic on canvas
“Chasing the Stars” diptych acrylic with gold and bronze on canvas 24 x 20 inches each panel
“Messages”
62 x 48 inches
acrylic on canvas
“Desert Sunrise” acrylic with gold,
x
gold, silver and bronze on canvas
“Along the Reef” acrylic on canvas
60 x 42 inches
“Spectral Window”
acrylic canvas
48 x 29.5 inches
44 x 44 inches
“Twin Flames” acrylic on canvas
The artist in her Santa Fe Studio
Photo:Audrey Durrell for Trend Magazine
