Is the World Finally Catching Up With Artist Bettina Werner?
By
Stephanie Simon
Manhattan
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For Bettina Werner, art is elemental, especially the fifth element, salt. She’s been obsessed with it for decades.
"The sounds, the smell, the texture,” Werner told NY1.
Werner grinds down different kinds of sea salt for her signature salt art work.
What You Need To Know
Bettina Werner came to NYC from Italy in the 1980s and made a name for herself creating paintings from colored salt
She is still enthralled with the material which she says has special healing and meditative properties, which she believes are carried in her works of art