Bette Jaedicke is an accomplished oil and watercolor artist.  Her expressive style reflects her love of color and texture.  Most of her paintings are completed "alla prima," an Italian term meaning "at once."  The painting is completed in one session without drying time in between. 

She has received numerous awards in the Rocky Mountain region.  In 2007 one of her works was honored in a six-state juried show in Red Lodge, Montana.  In 2006 her piece "Wine and Roses" appeared in the Scottsdale Artists' School's annual juried show, Best and Brightest.  During 2006 she participated in invitational shows in Bozeman and Billings, Montana, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and at the Wilde Meyer Gallery's "Dog Days of Summer" show in Scottsdale, Arizona.  One of her florals appears in a book, Best of America:  Oil Artists and Artisans. 

Bette has been juried into the Oil Painters of America and is a signature member of the Wyoming Watercolor Society.  She has exhibited her work in galleries in Bozeman, Billings, and Red Lodge, Montana, and Cody, Wyoming, as well as Scottsdale and Sedona, Arizona.  She has also had her art displayed  in design and home furnishing centers. She donates art annually to fund-raising events for the Deaconess Hospital Foundation, the Northern Rockies Radiation Oncology Center, Casting for Recovery, Faith in Practice and Refuge International, the latter two Christian medical missions.

Her fine art training consists of the Scottsdale Artists' School (Robert Moore, Hedi Moran, Linda Glover-Gooch), and workshops with various internationally known artists. Bette received her university education at San Francisco State with a B.A. in Spanish and M.A. in TESOL). She held positions at the United Nations, Georgia Tech and several schools and colleges.  In addition to fine art, her interests include Bible study, horse packing in the Wyoming and Montana wilderness, and fly fishing.  She makes annual trips to Guatemala as an interpreter for medical missions. A percentage of her art profit is designated for medical treatment of the indigenous maya.

She is represented by Greenwich House Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio and also has work on exhibit at /the Red Brick Gallery in Ventura, California.

Faith in God is a big part of her life and art.  She quotes the writer Janice Elsheimer:  "Our gifts are not from God TO US, but from God THROUGH US to the world."   As an artist, Bette wishes to perfect the gift she has been given, committing  her work to the Lord (Proverbs 16:3). 

Soli Deo Gloria