BETTY BRANCH
(540) 344-4994
[email protected]
http://www.bettybranch.com
Betty Branch’s journey
toward becoming a nationally
renowned, internationally
celebrated sculptor is an
inspiring story. Branch has
stayed resolute to lifelong
tenets that define her work:
the body, rites of passage both
traditional and unorthodox,
the intersection between land
and form, and the crow. Her
media is diverse; she sculpts
with marble, clay, bronze,
stone, wax, terra cotta, earth
and straw. Each medium is
a talismanic touchstone for
her art; Branch ferrets out the
essence of every one of these
for exploitation.
When Branch’s work is
considered in its entirety,
a compassionate portrayal
of the human condition is
translated through gesture,
form and skin, airborne
through imagination and
intensification, theater and
theodicy.
“My first memory is of
making something—my joy
existing between discovery
and creation, a process as
necessary as breathing,” she
says. “For as long as I can
remember, this urgency to
create has possessed me and
fuels whatever project is at
hand. My working process
allows me to return to my
earliest recognitions of my
‘maker-self’ as I sculpt in
stone, clay, bronze or earth.”
Branch maintains a studio
as well as a 6,000-square-
foot art gallery in downtown
Roanoke, Virginia. She is
a member of the National
Sculpture Society, Audubon
Artists, Allied Artists and Tri-
State Sculptors.
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A Friend for Life, bronze and
stainless steel, 82 x 42 x 15"
2
La Penserosa, bronze,
18 x 23 x 10"
3
Survivor, bronze,
13 x 13 x 5"31
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