Betty WINKLER: Without movement through space, optically or physically, there is no sensation--no awareness of our presence within the natural universe. The "Passages" series includes a sense of time and suggests the physical world a bit more specifically than some of my other works..

Betty WINKLER: Michelangelo has always been my favorite artist. In all his work, he perfectly balances power and fragility, materials and image. Certain Monet paintings have a light that can only be described as magical and mystical. His effects of light are subtle, usually because of his marvelous weaving of color. You come close to examine a Monet to see how he did it and it all dissolves into strokes or flashes of color; stepping back, you see the harmony of it all. Magritte with his technical proficiency matched with his visual puns makes me smile, makes me dream.

Betty WINKLER: I've always felt that in Francis Bacon's work it was my soul he'd splattered across his canvases. Wild colors that didn't seem to have been invented until he mixed them. The joy of grand painting and draftsmanship with the deep sorrow of the confusion and darkness within each of us. His ability to so accurately portray this confusion and its resultant emotions is a large part of his genius. Rothko is a kind of blending of Monet and Bacon, taken to further abstraction. I am safe when in front of just one of his paintings.