Bettye Williams was a Memory Painter born in Monticello Fl, in 1935 and died in 2017 in Bartow Fl. Growing up she pick cotton and tobacco and stole watermelons from her uncle's beloved patch. She didn't pick up a paint brush until she was 50 years old and started painting her memories of growing up in old Florida, considered Florida's rural Norman Rockwell.
Tampa Bay Times did a beautiful piece on her back in 1997 that you should Google. I have a few of her painting and they remind me of when I was growing up in rural Florida where there was nothing but orange groves and cattle ranches. We lived only about 3 miles from the beach, but we were in the country.
Look at the photos and ask questions and thanks for looking...