ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS BONNIE ZAHN GRIFFITHLocation: Walla Walla, WAPrimary Medium: pastelProfile BONNIE ZAHN GRIFFITH
When I was a kid growing up in Central Montana on a remote cattle ranch, a few things were pretty important...drawing pictures, reading books and riding horses. I would spend lots of hours in the evenings drawing horses, people and wildlife with whatever medium I could get my hands on. My mother was an oil painter and illustrator. I decided that I was also, and proved that by always getting into her art supplies and creating “art”. I am sure she was exasperated with me, but always gave encouragement and critique. My work is representational of the west. It is about COLOR! I focus on landscape and work almost exclusively in dry “chalk” pastel. I tend to “push” color, to illustrate a lot of texture and hopefully, for the viewer, give them work that they can enter into and expose their senses to. I want the viewer to be able to “walk into” that painting, feel the warmth of the sun on a fall day, the cold of the snow on an early morning as the sun rises, smell the grasses and grains, feel the humidity of the hot day along a stream; enter that painting and get lost in it, even for a minute...enjoy it. Shadows, clouds and atmosphere are expressed in a major part of this work. Aspens are a favorite subject. Those majestic, stark trees just stand out from the rest of the “crowd” and demand to be painted! Our landscape of the west - from Montana to Washington - is diverse and interesting and very much a source of inspiration for my work. One may see a road travelled or a path walked or a favorite part of the mountians. One of my other choices of medium is printing. I love to create landscape images with ink and create monotypes, especially in black and white with subtle accents of color. Follow my work on my blog – bonniegriffith.wordpress.com and website – www.bonniegriffith..com, Facebook – Bonnie Griffith Landscape Artist, Twitter - BZahnGriffith.
My work is about color; about landscape...walk on in and enjoy it!
Afternoon Shadows - Painting Ochre Fields in Winter - Painting Foothills and Fields - Painting Touchet River Sunset - Painting Trail by Bennington - Painting Storm From the West - Painting Fishing on the Snake - Painting Storm Clouds Over Crow Shadow - Painting Grazing After the Rain - Painting Zumwalt Prairie Ghosts - Painting Whiskey Creek Ranch - Painting To Summer Pasture - Painting Scenic Loop Road - Painting Bennington Lake Trail - Painting There's a Place - Painting River at Peppers Bridge - Painting Montana Winter Cabin - Painting Summer Afternoon - Painting Fields (small study) - Painting Fields (small works) - Painting Can You See It? - Painting Custer County Cow Trail - Painting Dry Creek Sentinel - Painting January Shadows - Painting Contact InformationMember galleries that represent this artist...Click any of the gallery names to visit their profile. |
Artist's Spotlight Moving Through III by Robert McCauley Painting 22x26"
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