Betsy Mott
8907 East Alki
Spokane, WA 99212

(509) 924-0964 (home)
(509) 921-9253 (work)


Betsy Mott started oil painting at a YWCA workshop when she was 12 years old.  But long before that she 
can remember spending hours dreaming up and sketching wild fantasy subjects and intense, precise, 
cherished media portraits.  

A compulsive reader and researcher, Betsy avidly studied her way through high school (valedictorian, 
class of 1976) and then college, using an occasional oil painting to bribe a friend or teacher for extra 
brownie points.  Betsy has a BA in theater/literature (Summa Cum Laude, Whitworth College, 1980), an 
MA in English Literature (Gonzaga University, 1983), and an MAT in Theater Arts (Gonzaga, 1985).  
(The theater department at Gonzaga had some very interesting and well-painted sets during those years.)  
During all this time, she kept painting, sketching, and dreaming... on weekends, during vacations, on 
summer holidays, and every other rare spare moment.  After nine years of college, none of it in art (but all 
of it, she will argue, useful to the creation of art), Betsy decided she loved painting more than anything 
else she could do with her life.

For the past ten years, her media portrait and fantasy paintings and prints have been seen at science 
fiction conventions all over the country, and in fanzines (amateur magazines) and private collections 
around the world.  Her awards include:  People's Choice and First Place at Britannicon (1995); Best of 
Show, Best Color, and Best Science Fiction at Tachycon (1995); Best Science Fiction at Incon (1993); 
Best Pro Artist at Incon (1992); People's Choice Awards at Orycon 9 and Orycon 11; and many others.  
She is listed in the Directory of American Artists and is a member of the Association of Science Fiction 
and Fantasy Artists (ASFA).

With her brother and sister, Betsy currently owns and manages The Corner Store Fountain and Books in 
Spokane, Washington, where she can show her paintings, talk with fans and run downstairs to her art 
studio on a regular basis.  She is a fourth generation Spokanite, a MENSAn, and a lifetime Mayflower 
Society member.  Her hobbies include role-playing games, kayaking, researching obscure topics, and 
playing trumpet in local pit orchestras and bands.