Biography
Born in 1970 in Asunción, capital of Paraguay, South America
Graduated from the University of Architecture, Design and Art in Asunción as an architect.
At university she learned a lot about mixing colours, watercolor painting and drawing with charcoal. She has also mastered painting with oil paint. Bettina has taught herself to paint with acrylic paint, Chinese ink on rice paper and to work with special markers, oil pastel and pastel chalk on paper.
Furthermore, Bettina developed in "Decorative painting", with which she had her own line of hand-painted decorative objects for children in Paraguay.
In April 2004 she came to Apeldoorn due to her marriage.
Bettina taught herself how to paint on bird feathers by practicing a lot.
Other forms of art are part of her daily work, such as works of art in cold porcelain and art in paraffin (handmade and hand-carved candles). She also regularly makes objects for children on request.
In 1977 she won a drawing competition in Paraguay.
In 2006, Bettina won a second prize in the national painting competition of Kleuren Pallet in the Achterhoek in the Netherlands.
In 2008 she won the design competition "Ecological temporary accommodation". Her design was built in Park Berg en Bos in the context of The Triennial in Apeldoorn.
Nowadays she works from her company MONJAPO Kunst & Design, as a painter and sculpture maker, on commission, for exhibitions and art markets. Bettina also designs for companies in interior construction and for private individuals.
She also works as a drawing and painting teacher for various groups and for the 'K Live Foundation.
Her paintings, painted feathers and cold porcelain sculptures are now in Paraguay, Brazil, the United States, France, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Israel, New Zealand, India, Curaçao, Italy, Dubai and in more than 60 places in the Netherlands.