March, 2025
Featured Artist

Bonnie, a native Mississippian, resides in Camarillo, California but has lived in France, Turkey, Italy, and several locations in The United States. She received a Master’s degree in French from the University of Mississippi, a TESL certificate from the University of California-Santa Barbara, and a CELI certification from the Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy. She began her study of oil painting in 2007 at the Van Art Studio in Castelvolturno,Italy, with Master Artist Luigi Van Westraut and was awarded a Diploma d’Artista in 2009. She currently studies with Master Artist David Gallup. She also teaches Italian at Conejo Valley Adult Education in Thousand Oaks, California.

Aloft: A New Perspective on the Landscape

Inspiration for a series of aerial landscapes came to me while my husband and I were flying our small plane. Seeing and painting the landscape from an altitude of thousands of feet became more exciting to me than the traditional vantage point of landscape painting. From above, the variety of shapes, colors, and textures created by Nature and man provide opportunities to work with abstract design and poetic interpretations on the canvas.

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