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BETTINA WERNER: The CHAKRA Art Collection and her spiritual journey at the Salt Mine, Margherita di Savoia, in Italy Bettina Werner, "The Queen of Salt" is an internationally critically acclaimed artist, who exclusively utilizes SALT as an artistic medium to create her innovative artworks. Born in Milan, Italy in 1965, she is now residing in The Financial District of New York City, where she is contributing to a new beginning with the cathartic power of her one -of -a- kind salt artworks. She is a driving force in Lower Manhattan with her radiant, unique artwork. Her loft faces the New York Stock Exchange, in the newly renovated Philippe Starck Building. bettina-werner.com The Title "Queen of Salt" refers to her pioneering and revolutionary use of salt in art creating paintings, sculptures and installations with her invention of textured colorized salt technique, developed in the early 1980's. While studying at the prestigious Brera Academy of Fine Art in Milan and discovering salt to be her own treasure, Bettina Werner began creating combinations of textures and colors with salt crystals. She became intrigued by the history of salt starting in ancient times, its wonderful texture, its transparency, its radiance, its healing power, its important value and use as currency. She was fascinated by its philosophic meaning, its power in the immense force of the sea and in the chemistry of our human bodies. Bettina Werner creates a majesty with crystals of salt making it a ...