Susan Webb Bonnell
I've been working and playing with art since grade school, sometimes more seriously and steadily but most times doing nothing at all. Throughout my 25 year working career as an HR consultant, I always dreamed that I would be able to give more time and energy to my art when I retired. That time finally came almost four years ago, but it wasn't until two years ago that I got up the nerve and commitment to do what I had said I would do.
In just the first year, I studied with Juliette Aristides of the Gage Academy, Michael Grimaldi from New York, Jordan Zokol from the Florence Academy of Art, and John Rizzotto and Susan Bari Price of the Gage Academy. Their guidance has been invaluable and they've each helped me move toward an important goal -- for my art to be more about fun and less about struggling in the dark. This next year will be more 'learning by doing,' i.e. drawing, drawing drawing, painting, painting, painting -- every day, life figures and still life, my two loves, one long time and one newly discovered -- the figure from life.
This website is still being developed, so bear with me as I get it together and continue to work every day on my art. My art progress is posted on my blog at susanbonnell.blogspot.com and my finished work is posted here on the website. Please email me anytime, at susanbonnell@olympus.net or call 206-367-1418. Also feel free to visit the Director's Gallery website for information on my work. Thanks for visiting.
The photo above is my husband Bill and I in Giverny, at our hotel across the street from Monet's home in September 2010.
In just the first year, I studied with Juliette Aristides of the Gage Academy, Michael Grimaldi from New York, Jordan Zokol from the Florence Academy of Art, and John Rizzotto and Susan Bari Price of the Gage Academy. Their guidance has been invaluable and they've each helped me move toward an important goal -- for my art to be more about fun and less about struggling in the dark. This next year will be more 'learning by doing,' i.e. drawing, drawing drawing, painting, painting, painting -- every day, life figures and still life, my two loves, one long time and one newly discovered -- the figure from life.
This website is still being developed, so bear with me as I get it together and continue to work every day on my art. My art progress is posted on my blog at susanbonnell.blogspot.com and my finished work is posted here on the website. Please email me anytime, at susanbonnell@olympus.net or call 206-367-1418. Also feel free to visit the Director's Gallery website for information on my work. Thanks for visiting.
The photo above is my husband Bill and I in Giverny, at our hotel across the street from Monet's home in September 2010.
