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When You Don't Know What To Do
When you don't know what to do, do something.
Betsy Horn
Feb 202 min read
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Looking Back Without Staring
What do you think about when you look back? Do you see the joy or the pain, the mistakes or the accomplishments, or do you avoid looking...
Betsy Horn
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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Upcoming EVENTS
Hello art lovers - here are a couple of upcoming events where I'll be showing and present! December 3rd - Lighting the City of Fort...
Betsy Horn
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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HOW DO YOU FRAME YOUR LIFE?
What do you cut and what do you leave in? Reduce it down. Keep it simple. Take out what isn’t important. Focus on the vision.
Betsy Horn
Nov 2, 20242 min read
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Love Is An Action Verb
Yes, I have "fallen" in love seemingly without being able to do anything about it. I have also loved and today I know that someone loved...
Betsy Horn
Oct 12, 20242 min read
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I Need A Vacation Whether or Not I Want One
Why do I need vacations even when I don't want to take the trouble to go on one? Because I need to stop in order to go. I need to rest...
Betsy Horn
Sep 28, 20243 min read
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For Fun and For Free
Free Is Good! Do you love to get something for free, especially if it's something you want or need? When Central Market opened here in...
Betsy Horn
Sep 14, 20243 min read
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I don't know much about art, but i know what i like
Are you like me? Do you breeze through art museums or galleries looking for what you like and bypassing the rest? I used to visit art...
Betsy Horn
Aug 31, 20243 min read
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Upcoming Art Shows
Historic Fort Worth's Preservation is the Art of the City AND "Reflection" at House of NeVille Gallery and Gatherings
Betsy Horn
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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How Long Did it take you to paint that?
How about 20 years. I'm not kidding. I started this painting in 2004. I got it out recently and suddenly I knew how to do what I...
Betsy Horn
Apr 26, 20241 min read
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PRIMAVERA
You're invited to come see my show in Sundance Square in Fort Worth going on now! My work will be there through April 28th, including the...
Betsy Horn
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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Fractured Fairy Tales
I'm in my seventies now and I just read something that made my whole life, and my art, make sense. I was amazed that a total stranger...
Betsy Horn
Nov 16, 20231 min read
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New from Old
When we moved into our home 30 years ago I used to gather juniper branches in the fall to make a wreath with dried wisteria vine from a...
Betsy Horn
Jul 27, 20231 min read
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"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? ...
Betsy Horn
Apr 27, 20231 min read
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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...
Betsy Horn
Mar 30, 20231 min read
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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. ...
Betsy Horn
Mar 2, 20231 min read
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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,...
Betsy Horn
Feb 14, 20231 min read
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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...
Betsy Horn
Feb 4, 20231 min read
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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,...
Betsy Horn
Jan 5, 20231 min read
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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 14, 20221 min read
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