Betsy Jacaruso received her BFA with honors at The Pratt Institute of Art and Design, NYC. Betsy is the recipient of the 2005 Individual Artist “Executives Arts Award” from the Dutchess County Council for the Arts. Although she is best known for large watercolor botanicals Betsy also has a passion for painting landscapes and still life. Her method of applying color washes, combined with strong skills in composition and draftsmanship, gives her work a unique and personal style. Extensive travels throughout the Hudson Valley, the Southwest, Burgundy and Tuscany have broadened her world, allowing her to draw visual inspiration from some of the most beautiful settings in the world while clarifying her own technical expertise in her chosen medium.

Betsy has a studio and gallery in Red Hook, NY. Her students find her mastery invaluable in the process of learning the complexities of painting watercolor. Her work has been featured in b

oth regional and international exhibitions and is represented in private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

From a review by Dakota Lane in the Woodstock Times-

“Betsy’s paintings of Rhinebeck farms and river views are idyllic without being sentimental, depicting simple rhythms of growth and a peaceful interconnectedness between the manmade and the organic.”