Betsy Horn
"If you're not in trouble, you're not learning"
I feel like I'm in trouble all the time when I'm creating art. It's unfathomable. It's elusive. It's baffling. Where do I start? ...
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BETSY HORN ART
Betsy Horn
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Dream the Dream
Janis said "Dream the dream; actualize the dream; show the dream." Simple! No, not simple. I was a daydreamer whose dreams never came...
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Betsy Horn
- Mar 2
- 1 min
NOT BAD
It was 1981, twenty years before I started drawing and painting in earnest. I was a very young mother and wanted to draw my daughter. ...
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Betsy Horn
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Possibility
One of the first things Janis Bryant said to me was, "Wait until you see the possibility." Years later, a fellow artist, Charlie Harris,...
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Betsy Horn
- Feb 4
- 1 min
You're Doing it Wrong
"Know that what you’re doing wrong is your style. Wrongness is precious. Watch for it, understand it, and keep it up." Robert Genn My...
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Betsy Horn
- Jan 5
- 1 min
What IF?
Progress not perfection is my guide in my recent paintings. I’m having so much fun. My kind of fun is quiet, free, loving, curious,...
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- Dec 14, 2022
- 1 min
Knowing What You Don't Know
It was shocking to be told that I would have to unlearn so much if I wanted to be an artist who didn’t start until adulthood. Being an...
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- Dec 1, 2022
- 1 min
"There is no such thing as talent!"
Janis Bryant, July 28, 2007, at my home, conducting one of our final art lessons. I met Janis in 2002, when I sought an art teacher,...
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