Artist: Bonnie Bardos | Location: Saluda, NC
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Artist: Bonnie Bardos | Location: Saluda, NC
Saluda, NC
Born on Ketchikan Island, Alaska, Bonnie Joy Bardos grew up in North Carolina and attended Wingate College in Wingate, North Carolina, along with taking courses in watercolor, pen/ink drawing, and oil painting with CPCC. She has taken art workshops/classes with Patricia Cole-Ferullo, Dale McEntire, Mike LaLone, Lalage Warrington, Libby Johnson at Arrowmont Craft School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Mike Stiler on Monhegan Island, Maine.
She often incorporates verses of her poetry or phrases in paintings, which have been in juried shows throughout the region. Currently, her Esto Perpetua landscape series is represented by Patricia Carlisle Fine Art, Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM, and her work has been featured in “Studio Visit” magazine. Her paintings and sculpture have been featured at galleries and shows in North and South Carolina, and New Mexico, including several exhibits at the non-profit contemporary art gallery, Upstairs Artspace.
Working in oils or acrylic, as well as other media--including sculpture for many years, re-occurring themes are nature/landscapes, women, birds, and abstraction. Jungian symbolism is often featured in her paintings. “The Journey Home” series features landscape and lone boats, based on ancient Asian poetry. One on-going series of landscapes is called Esto Perpetua.