Art has always been a family affair for Whitney Badgett. Born and raised on a ranch in Southeastern Montana, near the Northern Cheyenne reservation. Whitney has spent much of her life drawing and painting her surroundings.
The third member of her family to pursue a career in the arts. Whitney has found her own distinctive style. She has worked in colored pencils, but mixed media can be found in many of her works. She alternates a colorful realism directed approach using colored pencils with the highly flexible medium of encaustic painting, an art form dating back to ancient Greece, which involves painting with hot wax. Recently she has been doing a lot of gauche painting and mixed-media collages.
Beginning with her native Montana and the sights and colors absorbed on her extensive travels she has exhibited across the United States as well as in Eastern Europe, Thailand and Pakistan.
Whitney exudes an enthusiastically visual response to life and cites people as having the greatest influence on her art. She also acknowledges a love of the outdoors as a major inspiration.
She is a graduate of the University of Montana Western with a B. A. in Visual Arts. In 2010 she comleted her Masters in Fine Arts and accepted a position as Art Instructor for a K-12 Charter School in another state.
