Bettina Sellmann

In her paintings Sellmann uses a watercolor-on-canvas technique[1] in "candy colored acrylic tones (bonbonbunte Acryltöne)"[2] and “multi-layers of translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and acidic yellows and greens“.

[6] Recent paintings deal with kidult and fairy tale "romanticism“ (Cassandra Neyenesch) as well as kawaii imagery and influences of Far Eastern spirituality.

At Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin in 2011 she performed a space clearing, which could be considered either an empty room or "a purely transcendent exhibition“.

[7] She has works in private and public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which holds her drawing The Saints in This World Are Watching[8] (2003).

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - Grant Skowhegan Summer Residency Program New American Paintings, #74, Volume 13, Issue 1, The Open Studio Press, USA, February/March 2008