BONNIE M c GEE St. George, Utah
Bonnie McGee has been painting en plein air since 1999, when she attended a Plein Air Painters of America workshop in Steamboat Springs. Since then, she has studied with major plein air artists, and has won awards at many events. In 2014, the Plein Air Artists of Colorado awarded her Best of Show. Prior to her art career, Bonnie was a teacher who left it all to circumnavigate the world in a sailboat with her husband for four and a half years. Her book “Voices on the Wind” describes the island cultures she encountered and their influence on how she saw her own culture. Bonnie is represented by Wild Horse in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
The poet William Wordsworth wrote: And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean, and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. – from “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798”
I paint in a humble and impossible attempt to capture that presence and to share it with others. Beauty resides in the glow of a sunset, in the perfection of an untouched wilderness, in the play of light on clouds and mountains. Blessed to have lived my life amid landscapes of extraordinary visual beauty in both Colorado’s Yampa Valley and Utah’s red rock desert, I hope my paintings convey my gratitude and joy.
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