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COLORFUL AND MEANINGFUL
Bonnie Johnson
Artist
I am passionate about the power of flowers to delight, heal, grow and bloom.
Flowers for me represent an exciting form of beauty. Color, texture, emotion, healing, birth and growth.
Flowers provide essential elements of a life cycle. In addition to visual beauty they are the catalyst for producing food. You can’t have fruit or vegetables without a flower.
I love to plant flowers, watch them emerge from the earth, grow and produce the wonderful, colorful, splendor of the full bloom.
Is it magic or a gift?
Each flower and foliage is individually hand drawn and painted using traditional and digital tools and then designed as a European Style spiral bouquet.
Each piece of art is original digital media and professionally printed using only the highest quality inks and specialty papers.
Certified as a botanical illustrator from the New York Botanical Gardens, I find that I am inspired to explore texture, color and attitude of all the plant life that surrounds us.
Following a professional career as an art director, illustrator and art teacher as well as floral designer, I began my fine art journey painting in oil and watercolor and using various printmaking techniques to combine traditional and non-traditional methods of producing art.
I always seek to blur the boundaries between printmaking, drawing, and painting so they are obscured or do not exist.
Now I have learned to paint with digital tools allowing me to combine my past experiences with exciting new techniques.