Bettina Madini

I was born in Berlin, and I spent time in the Corporate World before laying the groundwork for my artistic breakthrough in Luxembourg in1992, when I joined the Conservatory of Music and, shortly after, the Ecole d’Art Contemporain.

I studied Fine Art in Luxembourg at the Ecole d'Art Contemporain with Jean-Marc Tosello, and in New York City at the National Academy of Fine Art and Design with Susan Shatter, Sharon Sprung, Henry Finckelstein and Wolf Kahn. I'm fascinated with the search for expressive color and light, which has led me on a journey across different painting media that are universes to me.

I paint in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel and silk painting. In 2018, I launched my own line of Wearable Art labeled ‘Magical Bodies.’

My paintings can be found in corporate and private collections in Europe, Australia, Canada, China and the United States.

Living within the confines of a wall in my home city of Berlin carved in me a drive for freedom and a desire to live life with joy and gusto. I learned to thrive on contrast and marveled at impressionistic and expressionistic art, especially the search for color and light.

Artists such as Marc Chagall and Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky and later Mark Rothko were the ...

1998-2003 Ecole des Arts Contemporains, Luxemburg, with Jean-Marc Tosello

2003 National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York City, USA: Pastel with Wolf Kahn, Watercolor painting with Susan Shatter and Melissa Meyer, Drawing with Henry Finkelstein and Sharon Sprung