San Francisco Bay Area artist, Bette Trono, paints from her studio in the Liberty Ship Building, Sausalito, CA. Born in Sendai, Japan, she lived most of her young adult life in the Midwest before moving to California. Bette began her career in the art publishing industry as a graphic designer, art director, creative director before returning to painting. Oil, acrylic and mixed media are her favorite mediums working in abstract and figurative subject matter.Bette has shown her work at Mill Valley ArtWalks venues, Mill Valley, CA; Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA; O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA; Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA; Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA; DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA; Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR; KALA Art Space, Astoria, OR. Affiliations: Member of Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA; O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA Education: BFA in painting and printmaking, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO and Graduate Studies, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO