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A lifelong native of Alabama, Betty Sue Matthews has been making quirky art pieces since she was three years old. Her family's financial needs forced her to drop out of school in the eighth grade. Now in her late 50's, she works part-time in a department store. Even when the demands of work and family have been the greatest, she has always found a way to keep creating her art. Matthews works with a variety of unconventional media. She draws "paper dolls" on tin, cuts them out, and paints them on both sides; she cuts out and paints a variety of animals -- pigs, roosters, cows -- on cardboard; and she draws and paints large, colorful ladies and babies on metal sheets, old cabinet doors, and pieces of wood. She is well-known for her vivid imagination in her local community, and she recently received more widespread notoriety when her artwork was featured in Kelly Ludwig's 2007 book "Detour Art: Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Environments Coast to Coast". This page was last updated on April 29, 2008.
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