Betsy Horn
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.
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BETSY HORN ART
Betsy Horn
Oct 122 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Sep 283 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Sep 143 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Aug 313 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Aug 161 min read
Upcoming Art Shows
Historic Fort Worth's Preservation is the Art of the City AND "Reflection" at House of NeVille Gallery and Gatherings
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Betsy Horn
Apr 261 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Nov 16, 20231 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Jul 27, 20231 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Apr 27, 20231 min read
"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? ...
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Betsy Horn
Mar 30, 20231 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Mar 2, 20231 min read
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. ...
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Betsy Horn
Feb 14, 20231 min read
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,...
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Betsy Horn
Feb 4, 20231 min read
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...
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Betsy Horn
Jan 5, 20231 min read
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,...
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Dec 14, 20221 min read
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 1, 20221 min read
"There is no such thing as talent!"
Janis Bryant, July 28, 2007, at my home, conducting one of our final art lessons. I met Janis in 2002, when I sought an art teacher,...
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