Bonnie Young connects to rural life and landscape because they reflect her roots. She discovered the love of painting the light and shadows and their effects on her subjects as she studied nature. For her, painting is an artistic articulation of life captured in watercolor or digital creations. Watercolor allows her to build depth and detail through layering glazes.
While still attending elementary school in a one room schoolhouse in the Nebraska Sandhills, she began painting. For most of her adult life, she lived in the midwest and west. She studied art at Kansas State University, the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado. In Colorado, she studied under Janet Nunn, an award winning watercolorist. In addition, Bonnie has a Masters of Science in information technology from the University of Colorado and has earned several awards for her watercolor and digital creations.
She retired from teaching in 2008 and began to devote more time to art. Then in July 2014, she moved to Maine. After the move, she invested in a She Shed and used the wood from her 1850 home remodel to make the shed into an art studio. Now she retreats and paints in peace and quiet reflections of life experiences.
Bonnie Young joined Pixels.com Licensing on January 26th, 2016.
