Bonnie Taylor Gallery

A self directed artist, Bonnie Taylor began oil painting in the 1980’s, while living in Saskatchewan, Ontario then France. For four years she studied art history and French culture at the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique. A highlight of her artistic education in France was residing on a wooded estate in the suburbs of Paris where the impressionist and Nabis had painted, and painting there with her French artist friends.

During her business career in the 1990’s in Montreal then Toronto, she put down her brushes, and included lighting design as part of her sales career. After retirement to Winnipeg, leaving her career as national sales manager for GE Lighting Canada, Bonnie took up her brushes again with new friends, discovering the delights of watercolor and acrylic.

Bonnie currently favours painting in an expressionist and fauvist abstract style.

Artists most admired are Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Vlaminck, along with the Group of Seven and Emily Carr.

"As an artist Bonnie Taylor decorates the support with explosions of colour and lyrical lines that intersect and bifurcate. Her interest focuses on using colour and line to create tension and mystery. Realism is but lines that are recognized, abstraction is but reality disguised."

She very much enjoys the company of artists, attending workshops, exhibiting , and delivering art history lectures. Bonnie is a member of the Charleswood Art Group, Local Colours Art Group, the Palette Club, Manitoba Society of Artists and is a founding member of the PenInk Club.

Bonnie keeps the left side of her brain sharp by serving as President of Charleswood Toastmasters, Vice President of the Manitoba Association of Parliamentarians and its Keystone Study Group, facilitator of its Evening Study Group, member of the National Association of Parliamentarians, and now President of the Manitoba Society of Artists.

Summers find her trekking and sketching in the woodland fields on her hobby farm in the western Interlake area of Manitoba, where she and her husband are restoring a prairie landscape to its native condition.

These days, Bonnie averages about 10 hours a week in studio, balancing her art with ther interests in book clubbing, Toastmasters, and dancing with Jim, her partner of 40 years.

"If you aim to dispense with method, learn method. If you aim at facility, work hard. If you aim for simplicity, master complexity" - Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan.

Prairie Dance

Encaustic 12" x 15"