Check out Bonnie Hill-Dowdy’s Artwork

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bonnie Hill-Dowdy.

Bonnie, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
After teaching for 13 years in Gilbert Public Schools, I decided to go back to graduated school at Houston Baptist University. I was able to explore my love of nature and travels through the use of watercolors on various mediums.
This led to new opportunities to teach at the high school level and now at Central Arizona College. I am still exploring the use of watercolors with my nature images.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
Art is a revitalization process that transforms inanimate objects into a renewal of natural beauty. For me, the revitalization of wood recreates memories, beauty, and brings to life renewal depicted by flowers springing from wood or painted on wood blocks. Watercolors illuminates freshness to the natural depictions on wood embellishment. The wood is no longer something inorganic and dead. How the images portray the sustainability of nature and how they will take over the world once more from man-made structures. The fauna and flora paintings represent the tremendous respect I hold for natural surroundings. Flowers represent rebirth, continuity, and fertility. Inspiration comes from places I have explored around the world.

Have things improved for artists? What should cities do to empower artists?
I believe with the internet viewing and reacting to art has become easier. The hard part is marketing your artwork. I think that in Arizona the art world has been limited and not many events to display multiple artists in the same venue.

 

Contact Info:

• Website: https://hilldowdy1.com
• Phone: 16023691278
• Email: hilldowdy@aol.com
• Instagram: hilldowdybonnie

Image Credit:
Bonnie Hill-Dowdy

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