Hello Art Patrons,
You’re correct. I did not get around to writing last quarter’s newsletter. I had minimal news. I worked on my bamboo painting, skied and recharged. Loafing, my Dad used to call it.
Lucky for me, talented artist/writer Katie Korotzer filled the void. In my studio, she interviewed and photographed me for the webzine, Piedmont Exedra, then proceeded to create an extensive eloquent four-page, ten photo Artist’s Profile within a week. She writes that my Pinecone “bristles with energy.” Nice. She includes a sneak preview photo of my Golden Bamboo painting still taped to the easel board. “Look closely to see a bit of fauna on the flora” the caption reads. LMK if you can’t find it. Click Reader View for full-page images.
My fall art season begins in September:
Piedmont Harvest Festival
711 Highland Ave. Piedmont CA.
Sept. 22 11-3 pm Piedmont Park
Come see my Golden Bamboo painting in the Tea House in Piedmont Park from 11-3 pm. Snack at a food truck, sample hometown garden edibles and baked goods, shop the farmer’s market and take a chance on the cake walk. Get face painted! This leaves us an hour to hop over the San Rafael Bridge to the Marin Art and Garden Center by 4-6 pm for my other Artists’ Reception the same day. It’s an art extravaganza! ASBA is celebrating our 25th Silver Anniversary with a catalogue of current members’ art, Celebrating Silver, depicting silver in the image or plant name. My piece will be a detail of the larger Silver Birch painting. Our Northern CA. branch will exhibit our ‘Silver’ catalogue artwork:
Marin Art and Garden Center,
30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Ross, CA.
Artist’s’ Reception: Sept 22, 4-6 pm
Exhibition: Sept 23–Nov 16, Monday-Sat 9-5pm
www.magc.org
As a bonus, the 22nd Annual ASBA International Botanical Exhibition will run daily alongside our chapter show at MAGC. This will be its first year on the West coast. The show contains some of the best modern botanical art created worldwide. I didn’t enter because, well, it’s next-to-impossible to get in and artists are required to show an original and then to sell it . . . which I’m not quite ready to do. This Botanical Art will be the best of the best. Don’t miss it!
Sunday, December 8th from 2pm – 5pm is the annual Botanical Holiday Art Exhibition. You’ll have another newsletter before then. If you missed the Harvest Festival, you can see my Golden Bamboo painting during the holidays at Woodhall in Orinda and find the fauna on the flora in person.
I hope to be back at the Berkeley Botanical Garden for a Rare and Endangered Species Exhibition Jan 17-Feb 5 but have not yet painted anything rare or endangered. Ideas?
2020 will bring the Garden Club of America Flower Show to California at Claremont Country Club on April 15-17. Piedmont Garden Club is hosting this 201 club national event and I’ve been asked to share my Bug Hotels and Botanical Art. It is free and open to the public. Details later.
I’ve also had big fun with little kids. In oversized aprons and tiny chairs, elementary school children and I splattered and glazed ourselves and dozens of kid-sculpted, kiln fired ceramic flowers for Piedmont’s Big Art Show benefiting art in Piedmont schools. These bright colorful sprouts of flower power on metal stakes immediately sold out at $15-20 apiece. They are blooming in gardens throughout town. My Acorn Giclee print made one buyer happy as well.
Next year I will notify you in advance of the ASBA Online Art Auction. I am happy to report that someone got a good deal for a great cause on my unframed Aspen and Nasturtium prints.
Do you know: When planting, to determine what areas of your garden will be in shade this winter, step out late at night during a summer full moon. Those garden shadows you see will mimic your daytime shadows in winter. As opposed to sun shadows, moon shadows are long in summer, short in winter. Plant by the light of the moon?
Finally, I’d like to welcome a whole new passel of art patrons who’d signed up for my newsletter in the past. I just found the list with your names! As always please unsubscribe at will.
Yours,
Bonnie Bonner
a.k.a. Joanne Palamountain