Bette Ridgeway is best known for her large-scale, luminous poured canvases that push the boundaries of light, color and design. Her youth spent in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and her extensive global travel have informed her colorful palette. For the past two decades, the high desert light of Santa Fe, NM has fueled Ridgeway’s art practice.
The purpose of my artwork is to invoke an awakening of the sensual. Stimulating a perceptual, internal, and intellectual response for the viewer: a visual that speaks to life's experiences. Creating symbols of universal connection underscores the relationship that one has to another and to nature.
Morphologies emerge in variable ways,
Protruding through space and time,
Yielding multifarious mazes.
Frozen in a burnt copper substrate, surrounded
With whorls and tides of a creature’s past, a steadfast
Expanding environmentalism through provocative conversation and the arts. 
are these chairs taken?, archival natural pigment prints on Italian cotton rag, 36×54”, 2019
blocks, archival natural pigment prints on Italian cotton rag, 24×16”, 2019
can’t 
Davenport Washington, Photography/Ultrachrome print, 30×40”, 2020
Ephrata Washington, Photography/Piezography Print, 40×30”, 2015
Kalaloch Washington, Photography/Piezography Print, 30×30”, 2016
Livingston Montana 6, Photography/Ultrachrome print, 30×40”, 2020
Livingston Montana, Photography/Piezography Print, 30×40”, 2020
Paradise Valley 
