**Hi Steemit family!** # # # Magical forests by Betsy Walton # This incredible artist is from Portland, Oregon and bases her work on abstractions and figurations of different female subjects and different natural formations, usually inspired by a winter environment. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BetsyWalton_inhaleexhale_2000px_150dpi.jpg[source](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BetsyWalton_inhaleexhale_2000px_150dpi.jpg) Artist Betsy Walton vaguely imitates the landscape of Portland, Oregon in paintings infused with geodesic rocks and female subjects dressed as fascinating goddesses. Walton works in layers, leaving some areas of the paintings naked with minimal sketches, while others have been painted, mixed with new media, or patched several times. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51cb3ee9e4b043b66a23d438/51fbe95ee4b08f2b5c21de83/522784d9e4b0c54474fb4acb/1548540611393/Fleurs_web.jpg[source](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51cb3ee9e4b043b66a23d438/51fbe95ee4b08f2b5c21de83/522784d9e4b0c54474fb4acb/1548540611393/Fleurs_web.jpg) The magic of being an artist is a product of the creative mind that can give free rein to the imagination to develop and express what is in the mind, that is undoubtedly the most valuable, although not all express their ideas and vision well, some artists have extraordinary abilities to express what comes from their mind, is the case of Betsy Walton. Come with me to know what is hidden in your psychedelic mind. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51cb3ee9e4b043b66a23d438/51fbe95ee4b08f2b5c21de83/5c4ce55688251b8420a437a7/1550117600147/IMG_2697.jpg[source](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51cb3ee9e4b043b66a23d438/51fbe95ee4b08f2b5c21de83/5c4ce55688251b8420a437a7/1550117600147/IMG_2697.jpg) This artist seems to be immersed in an eternal journey of the 70s, worlds resolved and made with a lot of details that are between the child mentality and the purity of psychedelia in its maximum expression. His eagerness is to create landscapes, magical fantasy worlds that call us to get inside them. https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/psychedelic-paintings-betsy-walton-9.jpg[source](https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/psychedelic-paintings-betsy-walton-9.jpg) In her technique is recurrent to find many layers of vibrant colors that leaves captured in landscapes, we can also appreciate part of the flora and fauna. All this is based on real images that he then submits to his perspective and creativity, the result is as if those landscapes were not of this planet, or perhaps taken from the narrative of the classic stories of enchanted forests. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b0aabd440243d6c7ee09cb/57b5b132d1758e84f3f38885/5c4457a98a922d3a72dfd3a1/1547985227400/theseatofgrowth_1340_c.jpeg?format=1000w[source](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b0aabd440243d6c7ee09cb/57b5b132d1758e84f3f38885/5c4457a98a922d3a72dfd3a1/1547985227400/theseatofgrowth_1340_c.jpeg?format=1000w) His style could be between psychedelia and surrealism, everything depends on which eye you look at the painting, he usually paints figures as if they were almost all female aliens and the rest well arranged in the picture as plants with innumerable roots. It is like the unification of the two kingdoms both animal and vegetable in one. https://skin.sebastianfoster.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/550x/7b8fef0172c2eb72dd8fd366c999954c/B/e/BetsySnowmeltDETAIL.jpg[source](https://skin.sebastianfoster.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/550x/7b8fef0172c2eb72dd8fd366c999954c/B/e/BetsySnowmeltDETAIL.jpg) Perhaps Betsy Walton's work can be interpreted in different ways, another aspect could be the relationship that humans have with nature, at present it is like a disconnection she calls for them to be unified in a single being, she gives more relevance to the first planes and the second planes that are usually the bottoms of vegetation with an aspect more of eraser or sketch. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1963/31265611428_8caff7e8bc_o.jpg[source](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1963/31265611428_8caff7e8bc_o.jpg) For the moment she feels comfortable painting this type of style, although it does not close to discovering new sources of inspiration, even with the same creation of the paintings opens any possibility of giving an unexpected twist to change the shape of the picture. https://66.media.tumblr.com/ca8c0ff66ef642f748ba6ac820dd3ee9/tumblr_orqgo6DjHU1rg590io1_1280.jpg[source](https://66.media.tumblr.com/ca8c0ff66ef642f748ba6ac820dd3ee9/tumblr_orqgo6DjHU1rg590io1_1280.jpg) He has carried out some collective exhibitions, but it will be next year when he opens his first great individual exhibition, where he will present all his works. Undoubtedly an artist who has to face the different spaces where contemporary art occupies most of the visibility, making surrealist, figurative art in this era is not easy, the decline of the global art system is going through its worst crisis in history, many works that should not be considered art, but are the most quoted, sold and exhibited in art galleries and museums around the world. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c4dd2ce4b0b23209609dcd/55eb7a79e4b022d11317965e/55eb7a7ce4b022d11317ab93/1441497073239/giftf1.jpg[source](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54c4dd2ce4b0b23209609dcd/55eb7a79e4b022d11317965e/55eb7a7ce4b022d11317ab93/1441497073239/giftf1.jpg) # Thank you for reading --- # ![bitmoji-20181114034408.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUoz1tWEVtUQxXRX4Vg8U79FACujTLUwqrSb8nByyRE2X/bitmoji-20181114034408.png) # # https://steemitimages.com/DQmcZwa52FAPUoXpLYCU4mSLqxHRoZkdtoNgZc9o5tSRWLz/separtors.png # If you liked reading this article, feel free to **FOLLOW ME, UPVOTE and RESTEEM**! 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