Betty Scott Owen is a native and resident of Norfolk, Virginia and has also lived in Massachusetts, Florida and Ohio. She decided to leave the corporate world of structure and organization to follow the path less traveled to explore yet another ''world'' - one filled with "reflections." In the past seven years, she has been juried into more than one hundred exhibitions in museums, galleries and art shows along the east coast, including New York City and Washington, DC. She has received multiple awards for her abstract and representational imagery and her work is included in collections of environmentalists, health/fitness professionals and corporate executives. She is being represented by the Alpan Gallery in Huntington, Long Island, New York and currently has her work on exhibition.
The photography she presents is simple and pure, at the same time powerful. It is fresh and original and its message is felt on many levels. Without using computer programs to manipulate the images, the dichotomy of captured movement is evidenced in water reflections. Objects, shadows and colors unite to create new life, new energy, and possibly an alternate reality.
She believes life exists in everything around us and that life is constantly changing, morphing into a higher state in order to become all that it is capable of becoming. And while it is in this process, it attempts to present its message, its purpose for being at that instant, to those who are open to other possibilities. Shedding our limitations for just one moment has the potential for opening our hearts, minds and consciousness to a new paradigm and an enlightened understanding of our existence.
Betty is mentored by Bob Lerner, a renowned photojournalist and educator formerly with Look Magazine. He has the "Lerner Collection" archived in the Library of Congress and a permanent collection in the Chrysler Museum of Art. She was also mentored by Ken Wright, a thirty-year award winning abstract artist and a former Virginia Commissioner of the Arts who has his painting "September 11th" hanging in the White House. Both have been instrumental in her achieving her recognition.
Contact: 123 Orleans Circle
Norfolk, Va 23509
ladyscott@cox.net
