Waltons work explores many things simultaneously. With different colors and markings to give way to many different relationships its easy to take the image in at first glance. But, when you allow the subtleties to appear you start sensing what her work really generates. What could feel like randomness is also the pure conviction in which Walton works. By allowing randomness to appear and to be able to work with elements in the paintings that are not necessarily thought out, she is able to discover so many more possibilities than one who is always pre-meditating what they do. Some of the best paintings i have seen have come from a hand that acknowledges both spontaneity and direction.This is balanced by what seems to be a corky narrative in the paintings. Even the most vague of which still produce a tale which you cant quite figure out.
Her design sense is one that is unconventional to the main stream, but here in lies the beauty of it. She is not to always looking for the one sided view of everything. Instead, she allows both sides of the aesthetic to come into play, the pretty and the ugly. As this happens, beauty and ugly cease to exists. The experience of how the colors and marks come together create the definition which often times is normally hard to define. She is of course, borrowing from friends and contemporaries who she is inspired by but when you give the time to really investigate the different color and mark combinations you can see a little blip of Betsys world.