Friday, September 9th will wrap up this season's Art Walks in downtown Bozeman. ERA Landmark will be featuring Bette Jaedicke's oil and watercolor art.
Bette Jaedicke, a native of Wyoming, is an accomplished oil and watercolor artist. Her expressive style reflects her love of color and texture. Most of her oils are completed “alla prima,” meaning “at once” -- without drying time in between.
She has received numerous awards in the Rocky Mountain region. One of her works was honored in a six-state juried show in Red Lodge, Montana. Her piece “Wine and Roses” appeared in the Scottsdale Artists' School's annual juried show, Best and Brightest. She has participated in invitational shows in Bozeman and Billings, Montana, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and at the Wilde Meyer Gallery's “Dog Days of Summer,” show in Scottsdale, Arizona. One of her florals appears in a book, Best of America: Oil Artists and Artisans. In addition to original oils, she sells prints on tile, cutting boards, panels, and mother-of-pearl pendants.
Bette has been juried into the Oil Painters of America and is a signature member of the Wyoming Watercolor Society. She has exhibited her work in galleries in Bozeman, Billings, Red Lodge, and Cody as well as Scottsdale and Sedona, and has had her work displayed in design and home furnishing centers. She donates art annually to fund-raising events for the Deaconess Hospital Foundation, Love, Inc., the Northern Rockies Radiation Oncology Center, Casting for Recovery, Faith in Practice, and Refuge International (the latter Christian medical missions). A portion of her art profit goes to medical treatment of the indigenous Maya in Guatemala.
Her fine art training consists of the Scottsdale Artists' School and workshops with various internationally known artists. Bette received her university education at San Francisco State University (B.A. Spanish and M.A. TESOL). She held positions at the United Nations, Georgia Tech, and several schools and colleges. Besides fine art, her interests include Bible study, horse packing in the wilderness, fly fishing, and yoga. She makes annual trips to Guatemala as an interpreter for medical missions.
Her work is exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery in Big Timber, Montana.
Faith in God is a big part of her life and her art. Bette endeavors to perfect the artistic gift she has been given, committing her work to the Lord. (Proverbs 16:3)
Soli Deo Gloria.
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