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Betty Shelton is an accomplished and award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited extensively in the United States. Betty has received numerous painting and drawing awards throughout her artistic career, most notably she has been a finalist in the Art Renewal Center Salon, and the 6th Annual TAPPED at the Manifest Gallery. She has shown recently at the Watercolor West International Exhibition, Women by Women – Depictions
and Interpretations by Greater Los Angeles Women, and Poets and Artists, at the Arcadia Gallery.

Betty has BA, MA and MFA degrees in Drawing and Painting. She has been teaching 40 years, and has been privileged to spend the last 28 years teaching painting, drawing, and watercolor at the Laguna College of Art + Design.

Her metaphorical realistic figurative paintings are inspired by contemporary culture and yearly pilgrimages to the great museums of the world. Currently she is working on paintings, commissioned portraits, and maintaining a studio in Laguna Canyon.