“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about” Rumi
Bonnie Bonner
EDUCATION:
UC Berkeley B.A. art/ drama 2000
Cabrillo College drawing / composition 2010
Catherine Watters school Botanical Art in Watercolor 2003 – present
ASBA member 2009 to present
COVER ILLUSTRATIONS:
Three Fruits, Limoniera Corp. Annual report 2020
Tropaeolum majus, Florilegium of Plants of Alcatraz Island, National Park Service 2016
Tropaeolum majus, Plants Illustrated Exhibition, Berkeley Botanical Gardens 2014
COLLECTIONS HELD:
Pinus Jeffrey, US Botanic Garden, Washington DC
Tropaeolum majus, Alcatraz Island Florilegium, SF CA
Rosa, ‘Mr. Lincoln’, Heather Farm Garden Florilegium Walnut Creek CA
Oakland Arts Council Mask Project
Bay Area Rapid Transit Tile Project
EXHIBITIONS:
The de Young Open
Golden Gate Park 150th Anniversary
The Bedford Gallery: If a Tree Falls, Walnut Creek CA
National Park Service Centennial Exhibition, Washington DC National MallFiloli Gardens Annual Juried
Berkeley Art Center
U.C. Berkeley Botanical Gardens
S.F. Presidio Thoreau Center
Piedmont Center for the Arts
S.F. Strybing Arboretum
CA Native Plant Conservation Convention
Client List:
U.S. National Park Service
S.F. Garden Conservancy
S.F. Botanical Gardens
CA. Native Plant Society
Oakland Arts Council
GGNRA National Park Services
Heather Farm Garden
U.C. Berkeley Botanical Gardens
Save the Oaks
Piedmont Harvest Festival (curator)
PUBLICATIONS:
A Garden of Artistry Grows, Fine Art Connoisseur, Vol. 14, Issue 4, Aug 2017
S.F. Chronicle, Sept. 5, 1999
Piedmont Post, annually from 2000 to present
Cover: Tropaeolum majus, nasturtium, by Bonnie Bonner, 2013