What the Art Critics say
“It becomes impossible to distinguish between who sees and who is seen, who paints and what is painted.”
“Both Reiber and Cézanne seem to be inspired by the feeling that the landscape emanates, by “this inner animation, this radiation of the visible” (Merleau-Ponty) and are moved to capture such essence in painting. “We speak of ‘inspiration,’ and the word should be taken literally,” writes Merleau-Ponty.
There really is inspiration and expiration of Being, respiration in Being, action and passion so slightly discernible that it becomes impossible to distinguish between who sees and who is seen, who paints and what is painted.”
- G U I D O B A L B O D I V I N A D I O
Independent Scholar
“The material itself trembles
with the vitality of place.”
“To shape the interplay of painterly marks into the deeper and more elusive language of perceived and meditated experience so that the material itself trembles with the vitality of place”
- H O W A R D H U L L
Director of the Brantwood Trust and the Ruskin Foundation“Through expanded receptivity, Reiber allows the engagement with the present dwelling forces,
heat, dampness, light, the scent of moss from north-facing surfaces, the pace of hills, the fleeting sounds of visiting animals, the magnitude of mountains, the expansiveness of the sky; these are encounters, which occur between, amongst, with… in reciprocal tactility and interplay. Thus, quick lines appear, as shivering noises, drawing between that which recalls an alpine profile and the breathable vastness of a valley, arranging themselves to reconstruct, to echo a felt harmony, vibrating through the air, that which, once attained, whispers of magical tunes, en-chant-ed.”
- G U I D O B A L B O D I V I N A D I O
Independent Scholar
“Bettina’s eye is more than a physical eye: yes, it is optical; it is also poetic; most importantly it is spiritual, marrying the inner and outer being of artist and subject in a single vision.”
“Choosing to work outside, the artist has to work quickly and decisively, translating perception into a rapid accumulation of gestures, themselves articulate and expressive. Success comes down to the directness with which she imbues paint with the life of her eye.”
- H O W A R D H U L L
Director of the Brantwood Trust and the Ruskin Foundation
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